Our Journey Through Life

Hello, First we want to thank you for taking time out of your day to review our profile. We also want to thank you for thinking and choosing an adoption plan for your child. Lastly we want to thank you for choosing life for your child. We know this is a life changing decision and it isn't taken lightly. We pray you find the perfect family for your child. About Us We are Justin, Lori, & Titus. We have been married 10 years and have grown closer and more in love each day. We enjoy life and make sure we spend time together at least once a week as a family. We are a Christian family and are very involved with our church. We work along side some other wonderful leaders in our church's youth group and love working with teens. We have many friends and members of our church that have adopted. We love that our church has such a heart for adoption. We adopted Titus in 2009, he was 4 days old when we brought him home.                 ...

God did it!!! We got a matching grant! I was shocked when we got the email. I didn't think we would get a grant at all. After looking at J's income last year I didn't think anyone would give us one. Although this year is much lower than last year because he isn't in a salary position now. Anyway, I am so thankful for this possibility. We received the grant from Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc. (www.handinhandadopt.org) They will be matching dollar for dollar up to $3500 for a possible total of $7,000. That is about half of what is outstanding on our adoption whenever God gives us a baby.   I have really been struggling with how we would pay for this adoption. I really didn't want to get a loan for $15k. I knew God would provide, but I had a hard time believing how. Well this is how he is providing for some of it. We have some friends who have been waiting to do a fundraiser for us and now we can start planning it!  I know we may also need to send out le...

Waiting....not one of my favorite verbs. Waiting, we do so much of it every day, but nothing is like waiting for a child. Waiting for a child you don't know or even know when they will be part of your life. The waiting part of adoption is the hardest part for me. I don't like to wait and not know an outcome or have a timeline as to when something is going to happen. I have heard it said that you are just pregnant without a due date. While others may see it this way I don't. I see it the only way I can....waiting. We are waiting for that email that says "we have a situation you may be interested in", waiting for that call saying "the birthmom has chosen you" or the email saying "she has chosen another family" and we continue waiting again. Lots of waiting. While I try to keep my mind occupied with other things it is hard. I check my email just to see and email from the agency about an event they have coming up. Don't they know that isn...

I took this idea from another blog post that was written about International Adoption and added my own thoughts and ideas for Domestic Adoptions.   See the original post her:    http://wondermentetc.com/2013/08/02/dear-friends-of-waiting-adoptive-moms-some-things-to-know-also-were-sorry/ Dear friends & family,  1.        I Am Adopting, I'm not really crazy, not that much anyway.                      Adoption is something very special to my heart. If you knock it I will get offended. I not only feel a call to adopt, but I know I have been adopted into God's family as his child. For that adoption I am so thankful!!!  I decided to adopt because I knew I couldn't have kids. To adopt there is lots of paperwork, and lots more paperwork that needs to be filled out. Once you have it all filled out and think you are good, guess again...there is more. So if at times I seem crazy, I'm ...

Last night while getting ready for bed my phone rang & it was the local hospital. Thinking that J was calling me, which he does sometimes because of his job, I answered it in a different voice. When a female voice returned my hi, I first thought what happened to J. As the call proceeded this girl told me her name, which I didn't catch. Anyway she asked me if I was the one who wanted another baby. I told her yes. She continued to ask questions and I answered them. She told me to just come to the hospital when she had the baby & just take it. I told her to keep us informed and let us know what is going on. She then hung up. I had no idea what really just happened or if she was currently in labor. I call J and he told me to call the OB department at the hospital. They stated they had no patients at the time. I am guessing this girl just found out she was pregnant and she decided to give it up for adoption. I have no idea where she is, or who she is. I don't know when she...

If you have stumbled across this blog or if you have followed it from our Facebook, we are so glad you stopped by. I want this blog to be a story of our 2nd adoption journey. If you want to read about our first journey check out justinloripalmer.blogspot.com. I wanted to continue this story on that blog, but for some reason it wouldn't allow me to post any more. An update from before: T, who we brought home at 4 days old, is now 4 years old and a ball of energy. We love having him and we know that God chose him for our family because it could not have been a better fit. Titus has enjoyed being the only child, but has been asking for a baby sister or brother. We have enjoyed Titus, but we know he needs a sibling to share all his adventures with. In April we sent in our first set of paperwork for our homestudy, by the middle of my we were homestudy approved for our next adoption!! YAY!!! This time went so much quicker because our social worker was getting out of the business ...