We have BIG news…
We are adopting a child!
We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to welcome a beautiful new life into our home. As part of our adoption process, we have started a crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you to hear that adoption related costs can easily total up to $40,000 or more. This is why we have set a goal of $40,000.00 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents.
We hope that by inviting you into this process, you will see yourself as part of the community we hope to build around our child as he/she grows up. It truly takes a village! May you be blessed beyond measure for being a part of our story. We will be forever grateful for your loving contribution.
Here's our [ADOPTION] story:
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. We’ve all heard it and as a woman, we’ve all dreamt it. After a few years of marriage and travel adventures, Micah and I decided that we wanted to start a family…and so the journey began!
Upon “trying” to conceive, we were thrown many curve balls. I faced unexpected health challenges and nothing seemed to be working quite right. After overcoming many hurdles, we put our full trust in God to see OUR plan through to fruition. We went through rounds of fertility drugs, shots, timed everything, and ended the finale with IVF in 2019. However, sadly none of OUR efforts created a baby.
We were absolutely devastated. We had invested so much time, energy, and finances to bring home OUR own little miracle. The myriad of emotions were completely indescribable. I just couldn’t comprehend why God wasn’t allowing OUR perfect plan to unfold. Not to mention, we took on that journey with only some of our closest family members knowing. However, it was a path too great to bare alone.
After such heartbreak, I told Micah that I just needed at least a year to heal, process, and allow God to work in and through me. So here we are, I’ve prayed, shifted my focus, and feel as though I’m in much better health, mentally and physically. I’ve allowed God to reset my mind and spirit. Do I still yearn for a baby? Of course. Do I still cry at every mention of us having children? Thankfully, no. I’m just learning that through this process God has a mighty plan!
I spent a lot of time feeling abandoned, hurt, and angry. I couldn’t for the life of me comprehend why God would not follow through on allowing us to have our own child. It didn’t seem fair, but hey- life isn’t fair, right? Sometimes we have to go on a journey to grow our testimony. There is no mountain too big for God! He is able and we still believe in that.
Rewind to July 2018, my husband and I had visited Las Vegas (where he’s originally from) for his cousin’s wedding. While we were there, we also attended a Spiritual Awakening Conference. Of course, throughout the several days of being at this faith conference I had earnestly been praying about our fertility issues, privately. Later that week, we attended a session and then were scheduled to fly back to NC. As we exited the session early, a lady came out to the foyer to tell us that God had relayed a message to her. She said He told her that we were to adopt a child. Now y’all- I was dumbfounded and to be honest, in disbelief. I quickly tried to “brush it under the rug”. She went on to share that she had been adopted as a child and was so grateful for the wonderful, Christian parents God had blessed her with. Wow! If that’s not a sign from God, I don’t know what is. However, hardheaded me was still on MY own timeline and plan, and so we continued to proceed with many fertility treatments and IVF.
If I had been obedient enough to heed God’s message through one of His disciples here on earth, maybe I could have saved myself a lot of heartache, but it’s one of those things where hindsight is always 20/20. As I look back on this journey, I’m amazed at the little God winks along the way.
Another wink along the way came a short time after our failed IVF, where I attended a Women’s Conference in my hometown. It was the first of its’ kind and I honestly went on a whim. At this point, I was still very much in the healing process. The trauma I had gone through was very much still very real and private. As the speaker came up, she spoke on many wonderful and inspiring things, but what stood out the most is her message was on adoption. She, herself, had adopted a child and was sharing her story. Again, my heart wasn’t there just yet, but she shared the words, “In life, we learn that our journey may not look like everyone else’s journey, and that’s okay.” They were so profound to me, I just couldn’t shake it.
And here we are- many years into OUR grand plan. Things haven’t gone as we thought, but guess what- God’s plan will always be far better than we could ever ask or think. We know that He has the perfect child/children picked out just for us. We are answering His call. We are adopting!
We have been earnestly praying for the birth mother. We pray that she will be at peace in knowing that we are seeking God in all that we ask or think in this grand adventure. We pray she will see what a blessing she is to us for her incomprehensible sacrifice. We pray that she will seek God and His perfect plan for her life, too.
As we begin this journey of adoption, we ask that you come along with us. Please pray that God will put just the right people, at just the right time in our paths. Please pray that He will continue to bless our businesses and lives, as this is a huge financial endeavor. (No mountain is too big for our God!) Please pray for the new and ongoing relationship that we will form with the birth mom. Please pray that above all else, His will be done. There is power in prayer and we are too excited to walk this journey alone. We may not be expecting, but we are expectant! Up next comes our little miracle! Stay tuned…
P.S. This process can be LONG! We have completed step 1 (training), and have now been officially accepted into an agency. In step 2 (current step), we will begin the home study process- hello paperwork! Over the next few months, we will have interviews, home visits, and probably way more than I even know about. Once that is complete, we will, again, be in a waiting period, but this time to be MATCHED! So although we don’t know when, we trust that God’s timing is always perfect! Thanks for going on this journey with
Micah and I. There is power in prayer! 
Psalm 37:4
