Adoption

So this post is mostly for me...sorry if anyone gets bored reading it! You may or may not know that we have decided to adopt. It has been 4 years of waiting to see what happens, miscarraiges, medical procedures, and more miscarraiges. So, after the last one, we decided we REALLY needed to think hard about what our next step would be. Our options were in vitro fertilization or adoption. We prayed a lot about what to do and I made an appointment...in the same week with an infertility specialist and an adoption caseworker. I left the Dr. feeling really overwhelmed an stressed and not very happy. Bodie and I left the adoption orientation feeling like a huge weight had been lifted off our shoulders. We knew that was our answer. Now, anyone who has delt with infertility knows that it can be really stressful and emotional. After we made the decision to adopt, no kidding, all the stress was gone. We feel now, and have always felt that it doesn't matter if our child comes to us biologically with our own genes or if it comes to us from another set of parents..it can be our child and we will love it no matter what. So, I know we are starting a whole new emotional rollercoaster, but I also know that this is what we are supposed to be doing, we we will be able to handle it. We went to an adoption education class last weekend. It was amazing. So many good insights and new things to think about. It got us really motivated to get going with our approval process! We are so excited and can't wait until we have another child. McKenzie is great about it too. At this point, I think she would be somewhat disappointed if we got pregnant instead of adopted! Anyway, sorry for the boring post! Wish us luck!