There was a gnawing at my heart and I just knew we needed to adopt.
I wanted to help a child get out of an orphanage and into a forever family ours!
It was the BEST decision we ever made.
I supported those who adopted was their biggest cheerleader and we financially supported two children through Compassion.
After each miscarriage, my OBGYN would tell me how she just couldnt understand medically why.
Just a deep sadness and a longing in our heart for more children.
It was new, scary, and overwhelming.
But with such clear direction from God I jumped in with two feet.
My hubby is more cautious with everything everything in our life.
It usually takes months and months of prodding from me to get him to do anything.
So after daily conversations about adoption he told me to go ahead withwhateverI needed to get the ball rolling.
)and hounding our social worker to get it done!
Our social worker was nice, but not super competent.
She had availability for 2 hours a week, on Saturday morning.
So it took foooooorever!
The forms she filled out were filled with mistakes and typos.
It was so frustrating.
Can you sense I was getting frustrated?!
We finally got it waived, homestudy done, immigration form sent off, and the paper chase began.
Meanwhile I was scouring the listing from our agency and others for a kiddo that spoke to my heart.
I learned TONS about medical conditions and adoption in general.
And God began softening my heart to a particular need.
I scoured the listings all the time looking for a child that pulled at my heart.
Other than his little face none of the orphans I saw spoke to my heart.
I wondered if any of them would; was I being to picky?
So we waited, and waited, and waited.
!He agreed!!!!
Then, September 29, 2016 we got an email with our daughters file.
But again,we justknewshe was ours and decided to move forward in faith.
Plus the timing, we got her fileliterallyin the nick of time.
We couldnt figure out what was going on.
Our agency kept contacting their Chinese contact and they finally decided it was a coding error on Chinas end.
We re-locked his file and started to wait again for his file.
Our daughter was a different story.
We told our agency who worked to get an update apparently she was having heart surgery.
WHAT?!?!
It was scary and confusing.
This little girl was really a big question mark to us.
She was released and got our birthday cake just days before we arrived to picker her up.
Spoiler alert, we got to bring her home as planned praise God!
Then the agonizing wait for TA began.Prices for airline tickets were skyrocketing.
These friends listened, empathized, helped, and PRAYED us through this adoption.
