Why adoption?

Welcome to our blog. We decided to chronicle our adoption process for friends, family, and anyone who has ever been curious about adoption. When we first started on this journey, it was so overwhelming that we didn't quite know where to start. We're hoping we can offer help to others who might be in the same situation we were in. I don't promise that this will be updated every day, or even every week, but we will try to post as we hit milestones in the process. We intend for this blog to be very honest and forthright about our experiences so that our readers can be educated about the ups, downs, ins, and outs of the adoption process.


So the question remains...why adoption? Keith and I tried for about a year to have our own biological child. After no success, we went through testing and the Doctors diagnosed us with "unexplained infertility". As a woman, this was very hard to swallow and here's why. I spent the first 27 years of my life not really wanting children. I knew that Keith did eventually want children, so I asked God to change my heart towards kids. Enter a little boy named Judson. He was the second child born to good friends. I held him just days after he was born and after several months of being around him, Keith and I had totally fallen in love with this child and had decided that we were as ready as we were ever going to be to start our own family. So after God did a 180 on my heart, and after a year of trying, I was crushed to find out that it wasn't in His plan for us to have a child naturally (at least not at this time). And of course all of my friends were getting pregnant at this time, which if you've ever been in that situation, can be very difficult. We went through a couple of rounds of fertility treatment with no success. Finally, after weighing our options, we both agreed that we didn't want to spend a lot of money on additional fertility treatments that may or may not work. We would rather put that money toward adopting a child who needs a forever home.


When I was a kid, I thought that if I ever did decide to have a family, I would be open to the idea of adopting a child. Prior to our decision to adopt, several of our friends went through the process, which made it a little less scary. And since our decision to adopt, I've had several other friends and acquaintances start the adoption and foster to adopt process. It has been great to have these friends as resources and I truly hope that we can be a resource for others who may be interested in adoption. After Keith and I began to look into adoption, we felt that God was giving us multiple signs that we were moving forward in accordance with His will. Upcoming posts will focus on how we filtered through all the initial information about adoption and how we chose Armenia.