it's about love

Last September, after having a couple of miscarriages, we decided to pursue the adoption route to bring children into our family. Soon after starting the process we discovered we were pregnant so we stopped and concentrated on me being pregnant. Fast forward 5 1/2 months to the birth of our little William, who survived almost 2 months but passed away on March 28 due to being extremely premature and very sick. While we were in Utah for the viewing and burial I asked my mother, who had a similar experience, how long after their baby died did they start the process of adopting my brother. She told me they couldn't stand to wait very long and my brother became apart of our family less than a year later. I was quite shocked they could move on so quickly and told her I didn't think we'd be ready for at least a year to even begin thinking about adoption.

I was wrong. About two days afters we got home I started feeling like we needed to start the adoption process. I pushed the thought away and kept telling myself that we were still mourning our son and we weren't ready. The thought persisted so I mentioned it to Anthony a day later. He also felt that we should start working on it all. It's a pretty involved process. We started it in April and have just been approved as of July 13! We've been told the waiting time could be anywhere from 6 months to a year, or more. We are choosing to be optimistic and plan on getting a call any day now.

We are so excited about adoption! At some time in the future we'll try again on me carrying a baby but for now we'll go this route. We want children so badly but the thought of putting my body through all that again is a bit daunting. Not to mention the possibility of losing another child. So adoption is such a wonderful blessing!! We are grateful for the love, support and advice we've received throughout these past months! We've felt the Lord's guidance through this process and know He's very aware of our lives. We still miss Will every day but know he'd want siblings and we can't wait share his story with the rest of our children.

Please spread the word and send anyone thinking about adoption to our profile. The link is on the top right corner of our blog. We'll keep you posted on the progress!