Wow. Six months. I swear it was just a few days ago I was begging David to say yes.
Here’s an update of what has happened in the past month-
1. Independent Adoption
Our agency contacted us a few weeks ago and told us that they have seen an influx in expecting women finding parents for their child outside of an agency. Expecting women are looking in their network, in social media, and online places to find people wanting to adopt. We’ve actually been praying since we started this journey that we would find our baby outside of our agency because it would cost less- about $10k less- and it’s a bit more organic. Another huge plus is that we get to start the paperwork finally! Like this week we’ll get the paperwork going! Eeeep!!
The month of March was incredibly busy and partly because of that extremely straining on our marriage. It took us a while to even have a moment to just voice our opinions to the other about doing an independent adoption but we finally had about five minutes free and decided we would change our path to independent adoption.
What at is independent adoption? Independent adoption just means that we will still go through our agency for our home study and for the legalities but they will not look for a child for us. We are responsible for finding a baby. How do we do this? We don’t really have a plan as of right now as to how we’ll put our name out into the world even more but right now we have our blog posts, we often hashtag “adoption” and key words like that that expecting moms may look for, and we have a large network who knows we want to adopt and we’re hoping because of that a friend of a friend will know someone who is considering adoption and connect us with them.
It’s a bit scary because we may never come across an expecting mom wanting to relinquish her baby. We don’t have an agency looking for us. But we do have a God looking for us.
2. Emotions
March was tough. Like really really tough. We’ve really struggled this past month both as a couple and as a people wanting to be parents. April has already been easier but we do covet your prayers.
3. Thankfulness
We’ve experienced the love of so many people this month. We’ve had people hug us, send us sweet emails and texts, pray for us, and give us donations toward the adoption. We’re so thankful that even though some of you may not understand you still try to be empathetic and show us love. We love you all.
That’s pretty much it for our 6 month update. Thanks for following our journey.