The story so far...

So... the big announcement has been made. We've decided to adopt. No we didn't just all the sudden wake up one day and decide this... it's been a process... But let's just start at the beginning... or what we'll call the beginning of our family growing.

Mike & I want to have children. Until now that hasn't happened. But we're not going to focus on that. We are going to focus on what we're doing now. We have discussed adoption many times in the past. In fact, we had always thought it would be something we did whether we had natural children of our own or not. We just hadn't taken that leap. And we didn't really take the leap. We were pushed off the cliff.

We have been waiting and talking and waiting and talking and waiting and talking.  Do you get the idea? We were working on paying off some very large medical bills from trying to conceive. We said we'll look into adoption when we get that paid off. We knew adoption wouldn't be cheap... and frankly, one financial mess at a time thank you very much!

Then we got the call. Actually... it was a text... but the details aren't important. Well, this detail is... we had just sent off the last credit card payment. We had just paid off the treatments like we said we would. We were supposed to start looking into adoption. We were at that spot, but give us a little time to breathe before we jump. Then we got the text. Would we be interested in adopting? Someone was pregnant. She couldn't keep the baby. Would we be interested in adopting? This only happens in movies, right? Someone you know knows someone that can't keep a baby and you all meet and everyone is one big happy mess of a family. That only happens in movies. It's only supposed to happen in movies. But it's happening to us.

The Birth Mother is a gift to us from God. She is our angel. But please hear me on this. If you're reading this and you know us or you know her... please respect her wish of privacy. She has asked that our adoption be a closed one. Her name can not and will not ever be mentioned in this blog or anywhere online. If you know her, please love on her & tell her how happy you are that she is giving us this gift. Tell her what a wonderful, special woman that she is. She needs way more support in this process than we do. She is our miracle, and we'll never be able to express that enough to her.

And the miracles continue... About a couple of weeks after we all agreed to this... another phone call came... or text... again the details aren't important. What did we think about twins? Twins!!!! Seriously?!?!?! The Birth Mother was worried we wouldn't be happy... we on the other hand, were ecstatic. So... what was one crib and car seat has become two. And we're twice as happy... and twice as delirious! LOL!

So... that is where our family's journey begins.

But this is the one point I can't make enough. We're adopting. We love this Birth Mother and we already love these two precious babies. But we also know that in the adoption journey, things happen. Plans made can be broken. We are okay with that. We truly are. If this particular situation doesn't work out for us, we are still adopting. If this one situation doesn't work out for us, please don't spend one minute of your time feeling bad for us. Our family will still be growing. We've been pushed off the cliff... and we're on the road to adoption. We're excited to see where this adventure will lead us. It may lead us in a couple of months to the hospital up the street or it may lead us in a year around the other side of the world. What we do know for sure is that our family will be growing. We just don't know when or how, but we're excited to find it out.