Puzzle Fundraiser Update: Help us bring home baby Wier

A HUGE thank you to all who have donated so far. We are grateful beyond words for the gift of your kindness and generosity. We've been truly humbled by the amount of support we've received in the past few days. 

My mom has been working her butt off trying to spread the word. She's offered to teach free tennis lessons for those who donate. This woman already works 60+ hours a week- talk about generosity.

There have been people at my mom's work making minimum wage who have donated $25 to be a piece of the puzzle- truly, truly humbling. 

OUR PUZZLE IS 26.6% COMPLETE. We still need you. 

Puzzle Fundraiser: Help us bring home baby Wier!

We are approved to adopt AND we need your help! We won't be able to bring home our little one without a little help from a lot of people(if you like us even just a little bit please consider helping;-)). We need you to be a piece of our puzzle. 

It's not easy asking for help but we all need help sometimes. Right now, we feel God calling us to make ourselves vulnerable in this way- to invite others into this important process.

A big thank you to Jonathan for his graphic design skills which made this puzzle happen!

The waiting

We are at the very beginning of our official adoption wait. The papers are in. The family profiles printed and mailed. Now we wait for a potential birthmom to choose us to parent her baby. It is a strange state of limbo to be in. We've felt ready for this next stage of our lives for years now. The average couple makes the decision to be parents and before they know it they're at their first doctor's appointment hearing baby's heart beat.

Any expectant mom will tell you, you start bonding with your baby as soon as you see that positive test. Your hopes, dreams and plans for your future are already being made. The tricky thing is, we already feel attached to this baby. We are already love this baby. We just don't know where they are or when we'll meet them. We are making plans for this next stage of our life but we have virtually no control over when this stage will begin.



What our photo session meant to me

It was my intention to keep this blog about adoption, but it's pretty much impossible for me to speak about our life in any authentic way without mentioning infertility. Infertility touches everything.

"...for those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?"

-Laura Bush