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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6/19/10

The Wait and See Method

Now that we have a written homestudy report (only 3 months late and very poorly written), we have decided to see if we can finance the Ethiopian adoption through adoption grants. And donations are still arriving from our envelope campaign. We returned home from the Pacific Northwest to find an annoymous donation of $100 awaiting us!

So for now we are going to continue to pursue the international adoption, despite the overwhelming cost and emotional labor it requires. Sometimes I feel I am on a teeter-totter with this adoption.
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