What if every child could have a loving family?
What if we could be that family to a child that really needs one?
We really WANT to be that family.
Together with your help we WILL be.
We have some awesome news to share! We have decided to grow our family by adopting a baby! We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to welcome a beautiful new life into our home. We realize that our success in this journey will be greatly due to the help of our faith, community, family and friends. Both of us, as well as the birth mother that chooses us, will need ongoing support. Beyond any financial support, we will forever need your positive thoughts, well wishes, sound advice, counsel, hugs, and smiles.
As part of our adoption process, we have started this crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you to hear that adoption related costs can now easily total up to $50,000 or more. While we are personally saving funds, we are also looking into various adoption grant options. We have now set a donation goal of $15,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents. It is not easy to ask those who we know to support us in this journey, let alone people we do not know. It has been said “ Accepting help is a sign of strength; Asking for it is a sign of maturity.” We modestly recognize that it will be through your help and support that we will be able to help a birth mother with expenses and fees toward her prenatal care, medical expenses, attorney fees, travel to meet the son/ daughter that has been chosen for our family, attorney and legal fees, and adoption agency fees. All of this will ultimately make a reality a successful adoption of our precious baby.
We have read many birth mother’s describe the families that they feel would be the best to parent their children. Overwhelming, birth mothers of color specify that they want adoptive parents of color to care for their children. At the same time, there are so few people of color pursuing adoption. For us, as well as many others, cost is the single greatest barrier to adoption. We actually gave up on adoption for two years, feeling overwhelmed and unsupported. Then we found out about more options to help with adoption expenses. Enter Adopttogether.org! Together with your help, now we can help one birth mother choose us as the best family for her child.
Whether you’re able to donate or not, we want to first express our heartfelt appreciation in advance for your interest in our adoption journey. Secondly, if you are able to donate towards our adoption goal, we want you to know that we appreciate your generosity and selflessness. We recognize that not all that really want to help us can, but it is our earnest hope that all that can help us, will really want to.
Donations can be made securely on this website, given to us directly, and sent directly to our adoption agency in our behalf.
Thanks to everyone who helps make this adoption a success
Richard & Courtney
Hey everyone. It’s been pretty quite here. We’ve been just going about our daily lives. Enjoying the weather and patiently waiting. We were just informed that we have been chosen as parents to a baby girl!!!! We’re of course excited, and nervous at the same time. Our next step is to actually meet birthmom. Thanks again everyone, for all your support.
Update #2 11/22/22
Hey everyone! Many already know that 11/2/22 we welcomed a baby girl into our hearts. Unfortunately she wasn’t able to stay with us. Her mother later decided to parent her on 11/6/22. So with heavy hearts, although she is no longer with us, she is with her loving birthmother. We are now patiently awaiting another match and permanent placement.
Update #3 2/1/23
Hello again! You may already know that on Jan 19, 2022 we got a call out of the blue about a baby boy just born in need of an adoptive family. We accepted the call. Headed to the hospital, and stayed with him for his 5 day stay. There he captured our hearts. We took him home and immediately began introducing him to his new family. Having experienced a failed adoption, we were very anxious about his permanency. His birthmother also began to waiver. On 1/30/23 she decided she wanted to parent him. Unfortunate for adoptive families, the state of Pennsylvania, where all our birthmoms live, allows them 33 days to change their mind. After a needed investigation, he was returned to his birthmother on 2/1/23. So we again are just waiting.
Update #3
Our baby boy was returned to us to parent! As of February 22 our placement is now permanent! Now we just await the post-placement home studies, and finish all legal activities. Hopefully we’ll be at finalization in 6 months.
