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

Updates

- We had our first meeting with the social worker at her office today. I think it went well. She will visit our house in a couple weeks and then we will be done with the home study! We will just need to wait for her to complete the report and then we can send our applications to the agencies on our list. Once we send in our applications it is possible for us to be chosen at anytime!

Quick takes

- Today we handed in the giant packet of completed paperwork! Now we wait for our background checks to come back, which can take up to a month. Then we will be able to start the interview process. We will meet once with a social worker at her office and then once at our home. 

Our neighborhood family

When the winter hibernation is over we spend most evenings outside with our amazing neighbors. Little Cece can't wait to meet the baby!

Totally dependent on another's love

I am in awe of the way God has brought us to our knees throughout this journey.

Our becoming parents is only going to be possible through the self-sacrificing love of a birthmother. What a tremendously humbling thought! The trajectory of our lives depends on a hurting woman choosing to live the rest of her life with a hole in her heart because she values the life of her child more than her own comfort and desires. Our child's birthmother will embody the love of Christ in the most literal way- giving her own flesh and blood for another's good. I cannot help but to get weepy when I think about it.