The Adoption Book
Logan and I are working on our “Adoption Book” today. This is an autobiography of sorts that birth-moms will be able to look at when they are making the decision of who to place their baby with. Our book will be filled with pictures of Logan and I all the way from our childhoods to our marriage and life together. We will also include a letter from each one of us to the potential birth-mom telling her our story and letting her know what kind of parents we hope to be.
This is a fun, nerve-racking, exciting, terrifying and wonderful process. It is amazing to think that the letters we are writing and the pictures we are choosing right now will help a birth-mom make the decision to give us her child.
One of the things we have learned about adoption, from all of the seminars and events that we have been to over the past year, is that a mother really only places her baby for adoption out of love. These girls hardly ever choose to place their baby because they don’t want them. The fact is that most, if not all of these mothers, want to keep their child. But unfortunately, most of these girls have found themselves pregnant years before they have the maturity and resources to properly care for a little one. And so they are presented with the hardest decision they will ever make. They must personally come to the place were they realize that the best thing for their baby is to give them the loving home that they are presently incapable of providing.
The “Adoption Book” we are making is to help them make this decision. It is to give these girls a sense of peace as they make this tough decision. With these short stories and a few pictures, God can give these girls the peace they need to choose what is best for their baby.
Below are some ways that you can pray for us and our birth-mom:
- Please pray that God would lead us as we put our book together.
- Pray that God would help us to share the right stories and the right pictures so the mother of the child we are going to raise will have confidence that she is making the right decision.
- Pray for our birth-mom.
- Pray that she would choose the most loving thing for her baby and that God would give her peace as she wrestles through this tough decision.
Thanks for your prayers.
New Welcome Page
I updated the Welcome Page of the website. I hope you like the changes.
The Home Study
This week we began our home study process. For those of you who don’t know, a home study is a vital part of being able to adopt. The home study varies from agency to agency, but there is a state mandated portion of the home study that is common to all adoption agencies.
A home study consists of many things. We had to have criminal background checks run on us and will have to get checked for tuberculosis and other communicable diseases. We will have a series of interviews with our adoption case worker in which we will dig deep into our past, present and future to determine if we are the kind of people who are right for adoption.
Logan and I are about halfway through our home study process. We have had a couple’s interview and both of us have had an individual interview with our adoption case worker. We are now in the process of scheduling a home interview so the case worker can come out and see the house we live in and interview us on-site.
It is funny to me, in a “I understand why but it’s still funny kind of way,” that we have to go through all of this red tape to say that we are capable to love and raise a child. Wouldn’t our country be a lot different if the government regulated who was able to have kids the natural way with the same set of intricate standards. There would be a lot of upset people taking to the streets to protest, that’s for sure.
With all that said, Logan and I are excited to be going through this process and we can’t wait to get the phone call that we need to come and pick up a baby that will forever be ours. Even typing that sentence got me excited and a little nervous all at the same time.
Thanks for following us on our journey. We really covet your prayers.
Fall 2010 Newsletter
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