New Update!!! (3-19-2007)
Our new son is home Welcome home Darrin! In April 2006 we switched to a different local agency. This successful placement happened through Amara Parenting and Adoption Services (Formerly Medina Children's Services) We waited just 10 months after being homestudy ready (though, in reality we'd been waiting for two years).
New Update!!! (2-2005)
Our homestudy has been approved! We can now be considered for placements :-))
Update!! (8-2004)
We’ve turned in an application to adopt once again! We are excited to have decided to move forward with adoption #2!
Our Journey Through Adoption
...of a Personal Nature...
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Like so many others, our story of how Kevin and I are growing our family is probably very similar. We had been married for four years, and though no initial tests could show why we hadn't been able to conceive, we made the decision to push forth with growing our family through adoption. We decided not to go down the road of fertility treatments based on several reasons. For myself, I had a hard time seeing it being morally ethical. This is my own opinion, and I know that others may feel differently, but that is ok… I don’t see treatments as a “less than” situation. Regardless, all children are miracles from God.
Fertility treatments was/is not the right route for me to take. Included in that decision, I did not want to go through quite possibly multiple times of grief in not having a method work. At the time, I was already quite depressed about not being able to conceive. There were definite times where I did not feel like a whole woman because of not having been able to bear a child.
How do I feel today, still having never been/never will conceive? I am actually at peace with this. As a woman, it’s very difficult to let go of not being able to bear a child—but at the same time, I would not change a thing in regards to how Kevin and I have chosen to “grow” our family. I could have never created as perfect of a child that I see in Daniel. His birthmom is my hero.