"For the 9 years we have been together (4 years married) we have both wanted, and looked forward to children. Names have been chosen and how they would be raised is a discussion we are always going back to. The day we realized we were finally "ready" to begin a family was a truly joyous one. There is not enough room here to go over the whole story as to why we are choosing adoption, but we don't want an opportunity to come up that we have to pass over simply due to lack of funds. We don't know how or even if this site will be helpful to us...but God works in mysterious ways and we want to be open to any and all blessings.
This is what is written in the description section of my GoFundMe page; the one I started months ago while I was waiting for my passport to join Brandon in Germany. It was a discussion with a young woman wanting to find an adoptive family for her soon-to-be-born baby boy that initially got me thinking about the costs of adoption. When she first approached me about adopting her son, I decided to do some research and discovered that even private adoptions cost money (lawyer/court fees mostly) and that other avenues of adopting a child can cost upwards of 40,000 dollars (per child).
Though adopting that baby did not happen for us, it made me realize that I did not want another opportunity to show itself and us be unprepared. We aren't counting on charity and generous people to pay for us to have a child though. We have since taken a hard look at our fiances and have begun taking steps toward a healthy savings account earmarked for adoption. The GoFundMe account is there just to help supplement our own efforts.
Bran and I had previously discussed adoption as a "someday" situation we wanted to take on in later years after our own children have grown older. But our plans changed as of late with the realization we may never be able to have children naturally. This is something that causes me so much stress, pain, and misery. When the option of adopting the young woman's baby vanished, Brandon and I began our adoption discussion anew and came to the realization we were ready NOW, not "someday". The reason for this is at once simple, and complex. Fact of the mater is, I am a mother at heart, and Brandon is more than ready to be a father. We both love children, and have both discovered we can fall in love with children not of our blood. We want to give a child a family to call his or her own. We have both known for a long time that family is not defined by blood, but by love. We both have people in our lives that feel like family to us, though they aren't in any "legal" way bound to us. Blood may very well be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything and can (and has) seen us through everything. This is why we are choosing adoption over IVF or anything else. I feel in my heart that we are being led to adoption, that there is a child (or perhaps more than one) who is meant to be OUR child.
Since creating the account we have been blessed by several people donating to our Adoption Fund: April Faircloth, Charity Crespo, Tomasina Ross, and Kurt Sermas. I want to take this opportunity to say another thank you to these kind and generous people. Brandon and I truly appreciate all your efforts and what you have done to support us. I also want to thank everyone who have passed on the link to our GoFundMe page. The support of our family and friends (and even complete strangers) means the world to us and brings tears of joy to my eyes. Someday I will hold my sons and daughters in my arms and tell them about all the people who aided us in completing our family.
http://www.gofundme.com/5gql94
Though adopting that baby did not happen for us, it made me realize that I did not want another opportunity to show itself and us be unprepared. We aren't counting on charity and generous people to pay for us to have a child though. We have since taken a hard look at our fiances and have begun taking steps toward a healthy savings account earmarked for adoption. The GoFundMe account is there just to help supplement our own efforts.
Bran and I had previously discussed adoption as a "someday" situation we wanted to take on in later years after our own children have grown older. But our plans changed as of late with the realization we may never be able to have children naturally. This is something that causes me so much stress, pain, and misery. When the option of adopting the young woman's baby vanished, Brandon and I began our adoption discussion anew and came to the realization we were ready NOW, not "someday". The reason for this is at once simple, and complex. Fact of the mater is, I am a mother at heart, and Brandon is more than ready to be a father. We both love children, and have both discovered we can fall in love with children not of our blood. We want to give a child a family to call his or her own. We have both known for a long time that family is not defined by blood, but by love. We both have people in our lives that feel like family to us, though they aren't in any "legal" way bound to us. Blood may very well be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything and can (and has) seen us through everything. This is why we are choosing adoption over IVF or anything else. I feel in my heart that we are being led to adoption, that there is a child (or perhaps more than one) who is meant to be OUR child.
Since creating the account we have been blessed by several people donating to our Adoption Fund: April Faircloth, Charity Crespo, Tomasina Ross, and Kurt Sermas. I want to take this opportunity to say another thank you to these kind and generous people. Brandon and I truly appreciate all your efforts and what you have done to support us. I also want to thank everyone who have passed on the link to our GoFundMe page. The support of our family and friends (and even complete strangers) means the world to us and brings tears of joy to my eyes. Someday I will hold my sons and daughters in my arms and tell them about all the people who aided us in completing our family.
http://www.gofundme.com/5gql94