Our Adoption Story

Our story of adoption really starts when Matt and I were dating. Adoption was something that we talked about once we realized that our relationship was heading towards marriage. We both talked about that we had an interest in adoption and that it could be a possibility of how we would grow a family.

After we had been married for a couple years, we decided that we wanted to go ahead and try to start a family. We wanted to start early because we knew that we may struggle getting pregnant. So we started trying to have a baby. After about a year with no results we went to see a doctor. After several doctors appointments and tests, I started fertility drugs. We were on the fertility drugs for about 6 months with no results. My doctor decided that he had done all that he could do and that we needed to go see a specialist. The closest fertility specialist to us was in Mobile, AL. So we traveled over to meet with the doctor and discuss our possibilities.

After Matt and I left that meeting we decided that we had a lot of decisions to make. We struggled with all the possibilities and knew that we had to draw the line somewhere. We could spend all of our time and money spent persuing fertility treatments, if we wanted to. Also, we could put all of our resources into getting pregnant and God may not ever bless us with a child. After spending a lot of time in prayer and discussing the options we decided that we needed to take a break for a while.

After several months of taking a break from all the fertility drugs and treatments, Matt and I felt really at peace with our decision and we were also starting to come around to the idea that we may never have a biological child. During all of these years of decisions and struggles adoption was always a topic of conversation. We would talk about adoption and if we felt as if God was calling us to adopt a child during this time. We never felt at peace about pursuing adoption at that time. I started to pray more consistently about adoption. I prayed that God would help us see when the time was right and that He would provide the finances for an adoption. We knew that the finances would be an issue for us, but I prayed that God would show us areas in our personal budget that we could cut back on to raise money for an adoption, I prayed that God would give me ideas of how to raise money, and I prayed that He would provide the finances.

God heard my prayers and He provided the funds for our adoption. God provided the funds in such a way that it was a complete shock to us. We took some time to pray about the decision to start the adoption process. We felt very clearly during this time that God was telling us the start the process.

God has blessed us tremendously during this whole time of struggle and decisions. We know that we are doing exactly what God had lead us to do during this time. We are taking the whole process one step at a time and we are trying to be patient while everything is being worked out according to God's plan.