Today I am finally sharing our international adoption story of how we were led to adoption from South Africa. Our journey included a lot of brick walls, like an unethical agency, countries closing and more but it resulted in the sweetest boy being added to our family and it was worth all the effort, tears and prayers!       You can find our adoption timeline here.

I’ve been wanting to do an adoption Q & A for a long time and here it finally is! I have a feeling this will be part one of many but I am excited to answer some of your questions about our international adoption. Some of the questions I’m answer in this Q & A include: why international adoption? how much does it cost? what about fundraising? how do you choose an agency and country? how long was the process?      

Tomorrow marks five years since a South African judge ruled in favor of Ephraim joining our family. I cannot believe it has been five years already! That chubby eighteen month old has grown into a hilarious six and a half year old. When we first got our referral for him one of the words they used to describe his personality was “lively” and other than the first week of being with us where he was incredibly quiet the liveliness hasn’t stopped. He will do anything to make people laugh.     When I look back on our adoption timeline and the ups and downs, and apparent brick walls, I am…