Here is our Adoption Journey so far…
We started this process of adopting 2 little girls from Liberia in April of 2022.
After visiting Liberia for 5 months in 2024, we decided to additionally adopt a little boy. This little guy, already bonded to our Liberian daughters, also became very close to our entire family during our time in Liberia, and now, life without him with us is unimaginable.
We chose Liberia because we are impressed by Liberia’s resilience and progress as a war torn country that is healing from so much. Liberia works hard to allow adoptions when necessary and to reunite families whenever possible. We are grateful Liberia is allowing us to adopt our daughters, and hopeful as we watch Liberia grow as a country.
We started this journey in April of 2022.
In May of 2023, with the help of our friends and family, church, community, and organizations like Noonday Collection, Phill the Box, Funds2Orgs, and Adopt Together, we reached our fundraising goals to make our adoption possible. At that time, we anticipated our Liberian daughters would be joining our family in 3-6 months time.
We did not get any solid updates for months, until November of 2023, when adoptions for multiple agencies, including our agency, were suspended in Liberia, which prompted our visit to bond with our kids and explore all avenues in person in February of 2024. We returned home in July of 2024 after exhausting all resources to unite our family permanently.
There are multiple political conflicts that brought adoptions to a halt in November of 2023. Although these political conflicts put Liberian children at risk, the layers of the conflicts are multifaceted and complicated beyond the adoption process itself.
As we continue to wait, we are committed to intentional international parenting. We will continue to visit as much as we can and continue to pursue every avenue to unite our family on one continent. We appreciate any encouragement as we continue to walk this road.
The days of waiting and hoping this is going to work get longer each day.
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This is day 63 in our 2024 video update for our adoption journey of 2 little girls from Liberia. We have been in the process of adopting these 2 little girls for 705 days.
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The ups and downs and highs and lows keep coming….
But we will keep…. …going.
Today is Day 702.
Sometimes I wake up in Liberia in a panic, and I just want to come home. Thoughts float through my head and pierce my heart that say: “I don’t belong here. I want to go home. I shouldn’t have come. This won’t work. No one is on my side. I don’t see progress. I can’t move this stuff out of the way. We can’t win this battle.”
Then, I see their faces in my head. Like a ray of light into my darkness, the slide show of their faces plays again. The faces of our daughters in Liberia that we have waited for 2 years to meet. The faces of their friends. The graces of their presences as we sit together in the dirt of Liberia and they laugh and color and beg to braid my hair. As the ones that know they have parents coming write letters to their parents and hand them to me. As the ones that don’t have parents yet, write similar letters and hand them to me to the parents they dream of that have not yet chosen them.
The children that we meet each time we go to visit the orphanage cannot be seen by you. They need their identities protected as they wait in their state of orphanism.
But, we see them. We hear them. We know they need us, too. We know this thing of international adoption has decreased in the US from 40,000 kids a year just a decade ago, to 1500 kids a year last year. International Adoption by US citizens has decreased from 40,000 a year, to 1500 a year.
The children waiting with our daughters need us to tell you to please choose them. Please do not give up. Please to do not be swayed. Keep…. …going.
