Wow! I can't believe i made it to this post! We are so excited to announce that we are adopting! It's been placed on our hearts since we were pregnant with Jamin and have been waiting until God led us to starting the process. I don't even know where to begin with our story but I will try to write down a few thoughts and details.
We always thought about adoption but didn't honestly know if God would truly lead us to this point. After I became pregnant with Jamin, I became very sick and began to pray about adoption because I did not know how many children we would be able to have biologically because my pregnancies are so rough. Today, I can honestly say that I am so incredibly thankful for all those negative pregnancy side effects because we would not be on the road to adopting! The Lord blessed us with two more boys and after Dylin was born I truly mourned knowing that He was my last baby that would grow in my belly. BUT, God have me hope and really spoke to my heart. I knew we were not done having children but i didn't know what more children would look like, so i began to pray! For months and months, I prayed. Silently and by myself, i prayed! Every few months, I would causally bring it up to see if God was working in Kyle's heart too but it was not the case. Even though Kyle was open to adoption, he was not ready to take the steps toward beginning our journey. So, I remained silent, still praying and asking God to reveal the right timing to us. I knew this was a big decision for our family and didn't want to take a single step until God told me to. Late last fall, God began to spoke to Kyle's heart about adoption and I had no idea. He began to speak to pastors and friends about adoption. On my birthday, He surprised me with a beautiful letter explaining everything that was being placed on his heart and so we began to look. Kyle still had fears but we continued to move forward. As fears began to consume Kyle, I noticed and told him that we should stop the process and wait until he was ready but it was in that moment, He stopped me and said 'No', we are doing this and I truly want to do this. And so we began! Our hearts quickly landed on the Philippines. Everything about this country is amazing! We feel like we would fit right in. Their culture, their food, their beautiful people and their landscape! We can see ourselves visiting the Philippines many times for vacation and fun times! The Philippines is one of the hardest places to adopt from because they have very strict requirements. You have to be over and under a certain age, under a certain BMI, never have had counseling or therapy, healthy, not have too many kids already, can't have any mental or physical health concerns and the list goes on. We thought to ourselves...We qualify and we honored to be able to adopt from this great country that takes a lot of pride and work into matching their orphans! After that, we began the process....and oh what a process it is! I have always heard the phrase that it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes an even bigger village to adopt a child. God had stretched us beyond comfort in getting all the paperwork together. We have had to rely on so many people in this process and it has once again allowed us to grow and see the body of Christ working in so many! I will post a timeline of everything at a later time but here is a few things from our journey thus far!
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| Our 3 hour, each parent alone, psychological evaluation. |
Getting our dossier ready!
Celebrating by going to a local Filipino Restaurant!
Sending it all off...the FedEx lady thought I was crazy because I wanted to insure it for what it was worth...when she asked, 'how much?', I said, $30,000'! and she replied, I can't do that...they can only insure it for the cost of the paper...i was freaking out a little but my wonderful husband just whispered in my ear, 'Just trust if God has gotten us this far, He will get everything there safely!' Thanks Honey!
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| Sending our Dossier! |
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