Welcome to our Adoption Blog

Family and Friends, welcome to our Adoption Blog.  I have to admit, blogging is not a first language for either of us.  We have always felt too busy to blog.  Here we go though...we have  decided to proceed forward with our blog and you have now become our blaudience.

This blog however, is not about what we think necessarily or what we wish we could do. This blog has officially become about what we are doing, namely adopting.  As you may have seen in an earlier blog, short enough to be a tweet, we have officially taken the step to adopt.  While this journey is officially three weeks old, the desire started much earlier for us. In fact, this is our second attempt at adopting.  Our challenges in having kids helped push us over the edge to make adoption a reality.  This has never been a consolation prize for not having kids of our own.  It was just that we were 'done' with the pursuit of trying to have kids of our own after trying for a period of time with our second and we were ready to start the next chapter of our family.  We took the plunge and started process of adopting from Ethiopia.  A week after we started the process, Katy informed me that this whole adoption thing was getting a little complicated as she was pregnant.  Merritt, our daughter, was on the way and our adoption was now on hold.

We are now back in the saddle and have decided to pursue adoption from the Congo.  Our hope is that this blog will be a medium for sharing some of the reasons we have chosen to adopt and why we have decided to adopt from the Congo.  In addition, we expect to learn a lot during this process and hope we can share this process with you, bridging the cultural gaps that are wide for us too right now.  We expect many of you will walk alongside us as we attempt to bring this child into our family and we see it beneficial that you understand as much about this child as you do one of our biological children.  This child will not be the 'adopted child'.  Rather, this child will be our third child. 

Thank you for your support and we look forward to sharing the process with you.