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This is the story of how we decided to adopt.

Adoption had been in the back of my mind as soon as I started to listen to friends describe delivering a baby. We all know there are many many children who do not have a home and what a great alternative to child birth!

When the time came to talk together about how to start a family, adoption was an option for both of us. We have good friends who were blazing the trail and able to answer many of our questions. There was an Adoption Sunday at our church where 5 couples who have or are in the process of adopting told their stories. After that day we felt a strong pull to consider adoption for our family. In an effort to not act spontaneously or act for the wrong reasons, we decided we wouldn’t talk about it for 4 months- not until after Christmas.

In the meantime we both prayed and did some research. When we came back to talk about what we thought, the answer was obvious and simple.

Why not? Why wouldn’t we bring a child into our home? Why wouldn’t we start our family by adopting a child, the same way we are adopted by Christ? Why not? We know we want to have kids, why not choose adoption to grow our family?

There are always reasons to doubt something like this can be possible. But really, compared to many things that happen every day, this is VERY possible.

We don’t have an awesome story about why we are choosing to adopt. It’s super normal and doesn’t need a flashy explanation. We hope that sharing this journey will make adoption more normal/common/usual/ordinary and even popular.

Let’s put orphanages out of business! In a good way.

Here’s a video of a really cool family that has inspired us.

I Like Adoption