We are SO excited to announce that we are beginning the journey of Adoption!
We are beyond words and both eager as well as nervous as we begin preparing to welcome a beautiful new life into our home and grow our family!
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 $30,000 or more. This is why we have set a goal of $40,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents.
Our hope is 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. It does indeed take a village!
THANK YOU!
To everyone that came out to our Worship Night- you all are phenomenal.
Even though we were such a small group of people, we were loud. I think I cried the whole time actually.
The worship night covered the entire 1st invoice, which was unexpected and still a little unbelievable, but isn't that when God shows up the most!?
We sang of moving mountains and the goodness of God, and he heard and responded. Here is a line from the song "How Good The Lord Is" - "And I'll tell these stories to my kids that they may see Your faithfulness, may they not forget the goodness of God."
It rings true, I'll tell them.
So excited for what these next few months will bring as we finish up our home study, and our parent profile. and hopefully, move on to meeting Birth Moms :)
thanks again guys,
none of this would be possible with out you.
Agency Fees
Application $500
1st Installment upon acceptance of the application........... $3000
Home Study $1750
2nd Upon completion of home study and parent profile.... $6000
3rd Upon acceptance of Match with Birth Mom.................. $10,500
4th 72 hours prior to birth .......................................................$10,500
Expectant mother expenses typically range from $0 - $10,000.
If the expectant mother requests legal representation, we will be responsible for those costs as well. We
will be provided with an estimate of the anticipated expenses prior to accepting the match
Post-Placement Report $500
We want to be completely transparent with where every donation is going.
Thank you so much for your generosity and support in our pursuit of adoption. :)
As many of our friends and family know, Robzy and I have been trying to grow our family for a while now. We have always felt called to be parents. I'd even say we are our best selves when parenting.
But somehow here we were, with constant failed attempts month after month not only making that calling heavier, but consuming. After a year of infertility, we started seeking medical advice and answers. To no one's surprise, I discovered that I had a condition known as PCOs, which makes becoming pregnant significantly harder. After another year of trying while now on fertility medication, we were still left with empty arms and not even a single close call. While everyone around us prayed and offered words of encouragement, our hearts just kept sinking, "why was this happening to us?". In December 2022 we sought out the help of a reproductive specialist, and after another hand full of procedures and blood work, we added another medication in addition to the one I was already on along with monthly appointments to check that my body was following the protocols. I was done. I would leave each appointment in tears because it was just not supposed to be this way. It's not supposed to be this hard.
My body did not respond well to all the extra hormones, our marriage was suffering under the weight of a calendar that left no room for mistakes. It was costing too much, and I don't mean in a financial way.
The thing is, everything was working that should have resulted in conception, and yet here we are, with empty arms.
Adoption was never something we saw coming. We looked into it last year and the cost alone scared us away. Along with all the red tape that surrounded the process. So why now? Well, really the answer is Jesus. A friend from church came up to me one afternoon - and while knowing that we were struggling with infertility, certainly did not know that I had once again started looking into adoption agencies (not even Robzy knew) - said to me "I think the Lord is telling me you should adopt a baby." And I just stared at her and replied "Did He say from where?"
I didn't take it too seriously but the idea did start to occupy more space in my brain. "Could this be real?"
I shared how I was feeling with Robzy, who was as unsure as I was, but we signed up for an informational Zoom meeting with Adoption Options Inc. During the meeting she mentioned that fairly often the birth mom would ask the adoptive mom to be in the room with her during delivery. I just started to cry. At that very moment, everything that seemed questionable about adoption began to shrink. It didn't matter how much it costs, or how long it took adoption is a beauty worth risk. It isn't this cold-cut emotionless exchange of human life, it is a deep act of love and sacrifice. It's extending the table, and extending your family. I am convinced down to my very bones that this is where all the hardness of the past three years has led us.
So by faith, we are all in. And we hope that as you join us on this journey any preconceived notions that you have will melt away and you will fall in love with adoption just as we have. We are excited and hopeful, with arms held open in expectation that at the end of this, they will no longer be empty.
