Our adoption stories

While we wait to finalize Josiah's adoption I decided to talk about some of our adoptions. I hope you enjoy reading about them and realize what a love we have for our family and adoption in general. May it encourage you if you are either considering adoption for your unborn baby or already born child, or for those who may be seeking to adopt.Since some of our children are adopted from foster care we will not share their stories. It does not make them any less important but some issues are sensitive and we want to protect those involved.
After many years of parenting both adopted and biological children we decide to pursue adoption again. So in the spring of 2007 we signed on with an adoption agency to complete our home study and anxiously waited for the call. During our wait we planned and prepared for our new family member(s). We also networked with many agencies and spread the news to everyone that we wanted to adopt again. Every time we received a call about a possible situation we were so excited. However we were disappointed when we were not chosen for one reason or another. Many times we were not chosen because we had other children and the birth mother only wanted a couple with either no children or one child. At times we felt we would never welcome another child into our family. But to give up would have definately not been the answer, so we continued our search. I spent many hours
looking at websites of children that needed families and inquired about many of them. During that time we registered with Adopt America Network, CHASK, and the Down Syndrome Association to expand our efforts to adopt. This eventually led to our adoptions of Janae and Jamin! How blessed we are!