Our Journey Through Life

I have decided to explain this entire process for those of you who may not know or have always wondered what goes into getting matched and being chosen for a child. How does the process start? Once we had our home study & classes done then paid the initial agency fees we were considered ready to be shown to birth moms. We created an online profile that is on our agency's website. Then we created a profile book. How do you know about birth moms?   We then wait for our agency to send out profiles for possible opportunities. When we get a profile on a girl who is planning to do an adoption plan for the child she is carrying we look over it and chose if we want our online profile to be shown to her. In the information on the girl we get her medical history, if she has done any drugs or alcohol while pregnant, when she is due and what the gender is if it is known. Most of them are usually unknown genders. We are told if the birth father is in the picture and how he feels about ...

It's time for an Adoption update:  As most of you know we were not chosen for the birth mom that I wrote about in my last post. We thought the meeting went well, and we felt we connected with her. Unfortunately we didn't connect enough. While we were told she really liked us, but she chose the other family. When I asked the social worker why, the social worker said she just couldn't get over the fact that we homeschool. We were both very frustrated and didn't understand why it mattered how we school our children. We really didn't understand because the birth mom wanted no contact with the child once the adoption happened. We don't know God's plan. He already knows what will happen with this child and the family. He knows whether the BM will actually parent or if she will allow this child to be adopted. This has allowed us to look at our profile books and see what needs changed. We took out that we homeschool, added some adoption photos to the book and ...