Why Adopt?

People often wonder why Michael and I would choose to adopt when we have so many biological children. There are so many children in this world who are going without the love of a mother and father and the security of a stable home environment. We feel it is our calling to provide for at least one of those children through adoption.

Adoption is a natural choice for us since I was a birth mother as a teenager. I placed my infant son with a family through a semi-open adoption. I am excited to be on the other end of the situation and be able to now help a mother in need.

Our Progress in the Adoption Process

As of June 19, 2010, we have the written homestudy report in our hands and are researching adoption grants to help finance the adoption. We are preparing our documents for the Ethiopian government, but can't proceed much further without the first half of the Ethiopian program fee (roughly $6,000).


Timeframe from now until we bring our daughter home: Our personal goal is to bring our daughter home by the Fall of 2013.

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2/11/10

Encouragement

We received this wonderful email from one of the contributors to our adoption fundraiser, and I wanted to share with you her words of encouragement for us:

Good luck to you all. We adopted our son, from Moscow 16 years ago – we also went thru the home visits and criminal checks and everything. It’s a little overwhelming but so very rewarding... With our process, once we passed all the tests, we chose our son from videos and medical records. One month later we flew to Russia for one week with another couple who we are still friends with to get our son and their daughter. Truly an experience of a lifetime. He has blessed our life tremendously. My miracle daughter was born from me 4 years later. I always said that my son came from my heart and my daughter from my belly. I could not be happier for you and your family. Enjoy every moment. God Bless You!
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