my first post

February 15, 2009

OK, here it goes, my first blog out into the world of technology.. my words and thoughts in writing. Scary, but fun at the same time.

The story that I want to share, is our story of adoption.. the wishing, waiting and the unknown about the future.

Aran and I married in 2006 and wanted to try and have a family right away.. I had a suspision that it would be hard to get pregnant, and I was right. After a year of medicine, 4 artificial insemination tries and lots of tears, we decided to adopt. We chose Adoption Options to be our agency after talking to some friends of ours. This is when all the choices began. Domestic or international, ehtnicity, medical background, age of the child etc..etc..

the hardest and most influential desicions we would have to make for our future.

Interestingly enough, I feel these choices and decisions have brought Aran and I even closer. We seem to be on the same page and have a good sense on what we can handle or not.

It took us 4 months to get all our paperwork together; from medical histories, financial background to several interviews. We became a "waiting family" in June 2008.

It has been as of today 9 months on that waiting list, starting at number 41 to now today... number 15!!!

Let me explain that number.. The agency adds your family at the bottom and the birthmoms will chose the families from the top.. ofcourse the agency choses the families that matches that moms criteria.

We have realized that it could happen any time though.. In the last 9 months we have gotten three calls from the agency to see if we would liek to be profiled. The first we had said yes, but the mom wanted a Catholic family. The last two , the moms were pretty sick and we were worried that that little baby inside of them would be very sick too. So we are back to waiting....