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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7/17/11

An Update

The birth of beautiful Malcolm has kind of put me behind on updating our adoption blog! We are still moving slowly forward, getting little things in order so that when the adoption moves quickly again we are ready.

My etsy shop has been helping to fund our adoption since December 2010. To date we have made $709 towards our adoption expenses! I don't have a lot of inventory in there right now and need to get busy creating things so we can move closer to our goal of bringing our daughter home!

Michael and I have been taking some required adoption and parenting classes. These classes are all on-line and through an organization called Adoption Learning Partners. The first class we took was called Conspicuous Families. It was about bringing a child of another race into the home and dealing with reactions from friends, families, and strangers. It was a really interesting course, and Michael and I both hope and pray we won't have to deal with some of the scenarios presented in the course.

Our goal for the remainder of the summer is to get some more paperwork in and have expired paperwork updated. Our homestudy needs to reflect Malcolm, and we have been assigned a new social worker named Rita. As always, your prayers are most welcome and we will update the blog again soon!
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