Steve & Amy – Hoping to Adopt

This week after having attended the Families Supporting Adoption Conference (which we will post about later), we realized that we haven’t posted many of our thoughts about adoption. So in the future, we plan to post more on our thoughts about adoption.

Today for our memory, we decided to post on how we decided that adoption was the right choice for us.

After we had been trying to have a baby for a couple of years without any success, we came to a point where we had to make a decision about which path we wanted to choose to start our family. We have always felt that we were going to be able to have a family, we just weren’t sure how our children were going to come into our life. We had been thinking about it quite a bit, but we weren’t quite sure what to do. One day Amy had the thought that we should look into adoption. We were hesitant at first, and all the normal concerns went through our minds. After we had been thinking about it for awhile, we read an article about adoption from one of our church magazines, The Ensign. While reading this article, we felt strongly that adoption was how our Heavenly Father wanted us to build our family. So we started the process to get approved for adoption. Each step that we completed, led us to feel even stronger that this was the path that we wanted to take. Along the way, we’ve gained an even greater love for the process of adoption. We have seen how it can be a blessing to everyone involved. It isn’t an easy process. It requires a great sacrifice on the part of the birth mother. For this reason, we have a huge amount of love and respect for those women who make this tremendous sacrifice for their child. Although it is a sacrifice, we believe that it will be a blessing to all involved. We are now VERY excited to be a part of such an amazing journey! We feel strongly that adoption is a tender mercy of the Lord, for everyone involved in the process. We can’t wait for this miracle to happen in our family!!