The WHY...

Lots of folks wonder WHY we are adopting.  Are we not able to have biological children?  If not that, then why are we doing it?  Why go through the long, invasive, frustrating, and expensive process?  Read on to find out...

When we first got married, we thought we would wait two or three years before having kids.

A few years later, we still didn’t feel ready to start a family.  And a few more years later, we were even more convinced that we weren't ready.  Not only was the idea of kids unappealing, but we were truly terrified of being parents.

Oddly enough, though, the subject of adoption started popping up – and kept popping up.  We knew several other couples who had adopted or were in the process of adopting.  Someone posted an article on facebook about adoption.  We learned that several of the kids who attend the school where Jeannine works were adopted.  It seemed like everywhere we turned, we were hearing about adoption.

The more we learned about adoption, and the more we talked about it, the more we became convinced that this was the way that we were meant to build our family.  Along the way, God really worked on our hearts to give us a desire not just to have kids, but to adopt our kids.  We finally decided that we were ready to being the process when we were "ok with being terrified." :) 

Before we close, let us more clearly address the "are you ABLE to have biological children?" question, which is the most common assumption about why someone would adopt.  As far as we know, yes, we are able to conceive.  However, we never really tried to do so, so could be completely wrong about that.  God had a funny way of working so that before we were even ready to think about growing our family, we were convinced to do so via adoption.  Providential?  We think so.

Love,

Jason and Jeannine

Specific prayer requests:

1.  That God would be preparing us to be parents

2.  That God would be preparing the right child for us

3.  For wisdom and strength for the birthparents of our future child

4.  That our homestudy would be approved (we should know sometime in the next week or two!)