Our Journey Starts New

November 2011

For about a year and a half we have been praying that God would bless us with a child. We never imagined having any trouble pursuing this dream, but after a year of seemingly getting no where, we decided to start pursuing infertility treatment. Though we have not been told we cannot have children, the odds are not in our favor. This has been a very difficult journey, which has led us to start the adoption process. Adoption is something we had talked about even before we were married. Our desire is to be parents and raise children to teach them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. At times we wonder if it would have been easier to be told we are unable to have kids so that we could have started the adoption process sooner, but we know God’s timing is perfect, as is His plan for us. We are in the beginning stages of the adoption, we have finished reading the manual, and have started the Adoptive Planning Questionnaire. Once the APQ is finished we will apply for our Home Study. From there we will start working on our profile to be shown to potential birth mothers. We are very excited to have the opportunity to be blessed with a child, and know as hard or as scary and tough the process might be in the end God's will, will be done and we hope we are able to glorify him in every way.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Patiently waiting

We continue to wait...we spoke with our social workers today, the thing that now seems to be holding up the signing is something no one has control over. We have agreed that we will sign a visitation agreement, however it cannot be held up in a court of law. The birth mother didn't realize that and is struggling with the thought that we may leave with baby Hope and not keep our word. It boils down to trust. She has to trust that we will be the same people once we leave that we are right now. As frustrating as that is it's understandable. The only thing we can do is continue to reach out to her and show her we are the same people and that won't change once we leave. All  we can do right now is pray and wait. It will be extremely hard waiting again in limbo over the weekend. The social workers were encouraging in that never once in all this delaying has the birth mother expressed a desire to parent the baby. 
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