Tag: Adoption Process

  • The day we had been waiting for

    Not to long ago we had another adoption anniversary, our first match visit. This day has been hard for me for a few years now. I remember every detail. I remember all the smiles. I remember all the excitement. Who would have thought, six months later it would be over. We left on a Friday…

  • Mind Over Heart

    We received an email a couple weeks ago about updating over adoption home study for the next couple years. I brought this to my husband and we knew we needed to discuss this very important decision. We needed to weigh out all the options of keeping it up or letting it go. Wasn’t going to…

  • The Day We Met

    4 years ago… today. Hard to believe it has already been that long. As we all know time goes by quickly. We always have said in our home it is on hyper speed here with our family. Our eldest just finishing their second year of college and the youngest will complete their Junior year of…

  • Adoption Anniversary

    February is our journey anniversary but March is our adoption anniversary. Last month I wrote on our match with a sister and brother from Missouri, well that match didn’t work out. Adoption disruptions do happen for many reasons, we won’t get into that today. Six months after our adoption disruption we were matched with another…

  • Journey Anniversary

    February has always been kind of an anniversary month for us. It’s the month we chose to tell all of our family and friends of our decision to adopt. So many mixed emotions come with thinking back to when we told our immediate family. Excitement and fear. The excitement knowing hubs and I were going…