Adoption

Sometimes I'm not sure what to write on here and what not to write when it comes to our process of adoption. Our adoptions are pretty open, and luckily for us - our birth mothers are okay with us sharing our experiences on here. They really are so very incredible! But as far as searching for the next little family member to join our family - it's hard to say what to share and what to save for my journal. Adoption is always on my mind - always. It isn't the bad kind of being on my mind like something nagging at you, but more like the peaceful sort of underlying sweet miracle that has effected every part of my life, how I view the world and who I am. Does that make sense to anyone else?

Hema and I know that our family is not yet complete. We aren't sulking or wasting the time we have with the 2 sweeties we have now, but we know there we aren't done. As we pray and attend the temple and talk, we feel a great hope to press forward - that other little ones are prodding us forward in this journey - anxious to join our family.

We have been approved with LDS Family Services for baby #3 for just over a year now. We were approved last April. In that time our profile has been viewed 926 times, our photos viewed 173 times, our get to know you page 74 times and our contact us information had been viewed 32 times.

Those are pretty interesting numbers, but I try not to get caught up in the numbers - because we are only really waiting for one, the one who will read our profile and feel like she already knows us, but wants to know us better. The one who will wonder how on earth she will ever be able to place her sweet child for adoption, yet feel that it is right all at the same time. The one who will share a special bond with us that others will never be able to understand. The one who will pray and ponder and decide that the sweet little one that she is carrying and loving will be part of our family. That is the one we are waiting for, our next sweet birth mother.

Recently we have been blessed to have met some truly incredible people on this journey. We are grateful to share our experiences and feelings about adoption with them. If we can comfort or help a young mother in any way, we will always try to do so. We love them already - for even considering adoption and know that the decision is so huge. We love them no matter what they chose to do. We do not feel stressed out about what the outcome will be - because we know that the decision to place is not ours. We understand that our Father in Heaven is very aware of each of us and He will guide our little Spirits to our family when the time is right - it cannot be rushed or forced. We just feel so very blessed to meet incredible people, to get to know them and pray for them and love them, to be reminded again of the amazing love that parents have for their children - even when the pregnancy was unplanned, and to make our way along this journey that adoption is. It truly is a miracle and we are so grateful to be blessed to be part of it!