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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Girl Names

Similar to when I am pregnant, we spend much of our time around here throwing out random names for the newest member of the Krom clan. Different this time is the fact that we know the baby's sex, and so we focus on only girl names. It is fun, but it has that "we are not getting anywhere" feeling to it. I would like to be able to call my daughter something besides "her" and "the new baby."

This baby will have three names like her siblings. She will have a first name that she will go by, the name of her patron Saint for her second name, and the third name will be that of a member of the extended family.

Here's what we have come up with so far for first names. Please leave comments with more name suggestions.

Jessica likes: Elizabeth and Alice
Michael likes: Helen
James: Rebecca
Isaac: Sarah
Henry: Flowers
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