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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3/9/10

Homestudy

Our Homestudy is officially scheduled and as I sit here fending off a mini-panic attack I imagine the various impressions the social worker will have while touring our home. Piles of shoes missing mates clutter our entry room, house plants in several stages of death crowd every windowsill, the guest room looks like a children's consignment store threw up into it.

I have known this was coming for several months, but it was always in the future. My most common expression lately has been, "Before the social worker comes we should..." Well, I guess the future is now and I have some serious junk hiding to do!
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  1. Katherine T. LauerMarch 11, 2010 at 12:46 PM

    I can hardly wait to hear about how the home study goes! I would be a nervous wreck, but so many people who have been through it say it is no big deal. Of course, I think it's a lot smaller deal for a couple who has no children yet, rather than a couple who already has children (ones who can be interviewed, and how the parents will have their parenting philosophy questioned).

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