It takes a village

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to adopt a child.

There are so many things and people involved in an adoption that it is actually quite a miraculous process.

Also, every adoption is different.  With Jacob’s adoption, it took quite awhile to complete the paperwork—both online and off, do a home study, etc.  We needed to meet with our social worker and attend a training seminar.  Once everything was completed and our profile was online, we then let our friends and family know about it.   We appreciated their support and prayers on our behalf.  We didn’t tell too many people that first time, because our profile was found rather quickly by one of Jacob’s birthfather family members.  Some time after that, Jacobs’ birthparents decided they wanted to meet us, and things went from there.  We adopted Jacob and here we are loving life with him. 

This time around, the paperwork didn't take too long since it was already in our agencies system.  But the actual adoption process is taking quite a bit longer.  We have had a new profile up for 1.5 yrs.  We set up a blog during that time as well.  Over time we received a few inquiries, but nothing panned out.  We set up our FB page—but I could never figure out how quite how to use it.  I am not the most technologically savvy person.  But I took a look at it again this last week, and figured a few things out, and so we are trying to use it and blog a bit more to help others know we are still very interested in adopting, and also to help those who may come across it, get to know us a little bit better. 

So those of you who read our blog or FB updates, feel free to share them, repost them, tweet them.  Whatever it is people do with social media these days is pretty much ok with us.  As I said adoption involves a lot of people, and that includes you.  There is no telling who it is that might find our profile and feel it is the right one for them and their situation. 

Also, I have a few blog posts I am working on to help others get to know us a little bit more.  But if any of you have any ideas of topic or questions you think a birth parent might want to know, please tell us and I will try to blog about them as well.

Last but not least, we trust and know that God loves all of us and is acutely aware of our individual needs and desires.  We are grateful to Him for helping us adopt Jacob.  We trust that if it is His will that we adopt again, then somehow, someway, things will work out to make that happen. 

Thank you all for your support and kindness in this journey of ours, we really appreciate it.