Our Story

The Love of my life and I met the summer of 1996, while in high school. We dated for 2 years and were married. After being married for 1 month our Precious Daughter was born.After being married for 6 months My Love was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer called osteo-sarcoma.After rigorous chemotherapy treatments and an above the left knee amputation, My Love is doing great and in remission for 7 years this April.We always dreamed of having another child after our Precious Daughter was 4 years old.Fast forward...Precious Daughter is now 9 years old and we decided to get tested to see what are options were to add to our family. A specialist informed us that we would not be able to have another child naturally.After discussing our options we decided that our life would be fine with just the 3 of us.
A few months earlier we had talked about adoption and looked into foster adoption and decided that an infant would be the best placement for our family.After we attended a foster parent information session we decided that foster parenting was not for us.I had also been researching online to find out about different adoption agencies.I requested info from a few adoption agencies.Nothing ever came of the information gathering.
In October we were contacted by an adoption agency that I had previously contacted for information. The social worker stated that he had a possible match for us. The baby boy was to be born in late February or early March. After discussing it and lots of prayer we decided that we were interested in the possible match. Unfortunately due to a lot of red flags we decided not to pursue the match with said adoption agency. The upside to all of this is that we decided that we did want to adopt and we did want an infant boy.
After the situation with the adoption agency, we decided to go with a local adoption agency that has been around for several decades.In mid November we began the paper work process. In November we had the initial joint interview.In December we had individual interviews.Then we began to wait for holidays to pass and worked on our profile.In early January we had home visit. On February 28 we were told that the committee still has not met, but that we would not be disqualified if any potential moms came into agency.Basically the Social worker said we were unofficially approved and that she sees no reason why we would not be approved because everything looks great. I have faith in her opinion because she has been with agency for 30 years.
So I guess we are unofficially waiting!!!