It all started..

We’ve been thinking adoption for a while now….We did the invitro, insemination and all that stuff…and finally we came to terms that it just wasn’t meant to be for us to have a biological child. But we still really wanted to share our lives with a little one. We did a lot of praying and talking and thinking. We decided to go with China because with domestic adoption there is always that risk that the mother will change her mind.. and with all the pain and heartache thru the infertility stuff … neither of us were willing to risk that kind of heartache.. And now..we can’t wait to get our little “fortune cookie” and share our beliefs, feelings, stuff(he he) but most of all our love with her. Aww

So.. on the night of March 19th David was reading thru his Forward Day by Day prayer book. (That particular week we REALLY started getting serious about starting the whole process)…. he reads to me that March 19 is St. Joseph’s day. Jospeh was the be all end all of adoptive fathers. The author reminds of what Joseph did for Mary and Jesus. And that was the sign for us.. or more like God put it in BIG BLINKING LIGHTS! Cool huh! So on March 31st we went to an information session. Brenda, who did the presentation was wonderful.. she told us all about the program and the folks who started the agency. (http://www.chinesechildren.org/) She had pictures of her daughter and showed us the agency video(we all sniffled). Then towards the end her husband came in and her daughter Hannah came running in and well.. that just made the whole thing real for me! There she was, her little girl..clinging to her leg! Just about everyone who works for the agency has adopted a child from China! Ok where do we sign up?!?!


Ok so we got the application.. they want to know our BMI? Really.. um ok and expenses.. net worth… medical stuff.. We needed to sign all sorts of paperwork and have it Notarized.. Luckily working at Disney, Notaries are easy to find! Now we just need David to READ the dang paperwork. He signed one in the wrong place.. and I’m like.. so you MIGHT have committed a felony? And he’s like.. um no.. and I’m like.. um dude you signed the wrong section.. He says.. no I didn’t. I’m like.. well did ya READ it. He hesitates.. well I scanned thru.. but no ya didn’t READ it did ya.. well no.. ARGH.. so he had to do that one over!