We're ADOPTING!
Chris, Weston and I are thrilled to announce that we have started the process of adoption! We are incredibly excited and filled with joy about the new direction we feel God is leading our family in. We decided to start this blog so that we could bring our family and friends along with us on this journey!
Let us start by filling you in on how we came to this decision. We started trying to grow our family mid year in 2014. After a year of trying to conceive I was diagnosed with secondary unexplained infertility. After being prescribed multiple medications and a failed intrauterine insemination we felt God leading us towards adoption. We looked into an adoption agency and contacted a social worker, leaving us feeling overwhelmed. We decided to try one last attempt at becoming pregnant, in December 2016 we went through a failed in-vitro fertilization. After many months of prayer and discussions we both agreed that we would go back and look at adoption. As soon as we made the decision to seriously look into adoption, we felt an overwhelming sense of peace, joy and purpose come back into our lives. This helped confirm in our hearts that God was directing our steps towards adoption. Although we are in the early stages of adoption, we are thrilled that God has started to mend the holes in our hearts, and given us refreshed hope and a new dream for our family.
We view adoption as a beautiful picture of the gospel. We pray that adopting a child we will be mirroring God's great love and his adoption of us and his beloved children. We already feel so much love for our future child. We're so excited to see what baby God has picked out to join our family!
Where we are in the process:
We are still in the very beginning stages of adoption. The biggest thing we are working on now is completing our home study. A home study is conducted by a licensed social worker. The purpose of the home study is to educate, evaluate and prepare us for adoption. The home study consists of 3-4 home visits, extensive background check, health evaluations, collecting references, as well as paperwork and interviewing. Once we have completed our home study, we will be approved and one step closer to becoming a family of 4! We are also working on researching and brainstorming creative ways to fundraise and finance our adoption. We will go into the financial aspects of adoption in another post!
How can you help pray for us:
Pray that our home study process will continue to go smoothly and that we will be approved quickly and without any complications. Pray for us as we prepare our hearts and lives for sweet baby Cline! Please pray for God's hand to be in our beautiful child in every stage of their development in the womb. Please pray for the birth mother of our baby. Pray that she would care for her body and baby to the very best of her ability. Pray that through her adoption journey she would truly feel the peace, comfort, and love of God. Pray for her heart as she makes an adoption plan for her baby, that she would feel confident in her decision to give her child the best possible life. Pray for Weston during this journey, he is so excited to hopefully become a big brother soon!
Thank you for joining our adoption adventure! We are so thankful to have the support of our family and friends! Stay tuned for more posts and information on how you can be involved in bringing Baby Cline home!!
Much love,
