Hi, this is Kate, by the way
I personally have known I wanted to adopt since I was 8 years old. I remember sitting in my grade school classroom, reading my Weekly Reader, and it was all about how the Chinese government was regulating the number of children a family could legally have. This led to a lot of girls being literally abandoned in the streets because they were seen as the lesser of the genders. I think I decided that very day that I wanted to do something to change that. I have always grown up knowing I would adopt, so when I got the news in my early teens that I would probably not be able to have children biologically, I felt like God, in His amazing wisdom, had already prepared my heart for adoption years prior.
Of course, being a teenager and hearing that news is entirely different than being a 25 year old wife who is ready to start a family. It has been a difficult and painful journey to come to terms with the fact that we may never be able to conceive a baby out of the love a marriage creates. We know that God is the ultimate healer, and we believe that He can make this happen anytime He wants to; at the same time, doctors have told us we have a "less than 1% chance of ever conceiving a child." We are accepting that this may be the road the Lord has us walk down, and while He can heal me at any time, that may not be the path He has laid out for us.
This is Tyler,
I could not be more thrilled with our decision to adopt. From a very young age I have felt like I would love to have the opportunity to give a home to a child through adoption . I grew up in a loving, supportive, stable home, where my parents worked hard to give me every opportunity they could in life; I wholeheartedly want to provide the same for my children. As Kate mentioned, we had some previous knowledge that adoption might be the only way we would be able to have a family. We were hopeful that medical advances might make it possible for us to have biological children as well as adopted kids; but as it stands now, that does not seem to be the case. While this has been something that has been tough for us to come to terms with, I have felt so blessed that God has given us the opportunity to choose adoption.
[Kate again] So here is where we are today: we have two amazing children through adoption who we are pretty sure, hung the moon and stars :) They are getting older now and we are hoping to bring a sibling into our family. Tyler and I both loved the relationships we got to have with our siblings growing up (and now!) and we have always wanted to have kids that were close in age so they could be amazing friends. Thanks for taking the time to visit our site! Whether you are considering adoption, are a friend browsing our site, or have stumbled here by accident while surfing the net, keep us in mind. We are ready to grow our family and we are praying that God would match us up with the perfect mommy who is selflessly making the most difficult decision of her life. We could never understand the things she must be feeling, or the decisions she is facing, but we are praying for her, even now. If you happen to know anyone who is considering placing their child for adoption, we hope you would remember us and pray about sharing our site with them.
If you ARE a mommy, searching for a family, please visit our "Dear Mama" section for a more in-depth look at who we are. You will find our contact information at the bottom of that post.