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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 questioned many times in the last three years why God seems to like to make us wait. There have been days where I have felt like I honestly could not handle the weight of waiting any longer, it felt like a physical pressure on my chest, one that was affecting my ability to breathe….
If you asked me to tell you about one thing that I’ve learned from our adoption process so far, today I would tell you that there are some very generous people in this world. A few months ago I was taking photos for a sweet family and as I was preparing to leave I was…
I haven’t shared anything about our adoption journey since April so I thought today would be a good day for an update -if you can really call it that. After our last agency ended up having to close their doors on Canadian applicants back in April, Jared and I took some time off from researching…
November 17th was court day. We got to the home early and got to meet Tracy (the Newcastle social worker). Then the workers all said their goodbyes. One of them really teared up when she said goodbye to Ephraim, he’s been there since he came out of the hospital at 2 months old and you…
Thank you to every one on your comments, email, messages, texts and excitement at the news of our adoption. We are really excited about it. We started our home study last week and have been busy answering lots of questions and getting paperwork completed for our dossier. Hopefully early next week I will be done this 30…
One of the questions we get asked quite often is “why Africa?” People want to know why we chose Africa instead of Haiti, or South America, or Eastern Europe, or Asia. Quite simply God really put Africa on our hearts. I really don’t know how else to explain it, ever since I was a teenager…
