My Journey To Motherhood

February 24, 2016

SHARING HEARTS AROUND THE TABLE.

In From The Heart, My Journey To Motherhood

Last night a church women’s gathering, I sat around a table with other wives and the question “Who here has kids?” came up naturally. One by one each answered, each mothers, one next to me just found out she was pregnant with her second, one across the table blurting out her husband wanted more but she dreaded going through pregnancy again because her first labor had complications. Then there was me. A year ago, I would have bolted at the first sign of that question. I would have quietly got up from the table and ran to the bathroom to…

WHY I’M GLAD I CHOSE AN OPEN ADOPTION

In My Journey To Motherhood

The other day I saw something circling on Facebook. It was a post of a girl who had been adopted, and now as a young adult, she was using Facebook to try to find her biological parents. She shared how she knows none of her medical background because she has no link to her biological parents through the closed adoption her parents chose for her. My heart broke for her, as I thought about our baby girl in the future growing into an adult, and having all those natural questions that I know will come with her adoption, though in our…

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December 7, 2015

IT’S A GIRL!

In My Journey To Motherhood

All my pink dreams have officially come true! We found out last week, we have a baby GIRL on the way arriving in May! And I couldn’t be more excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A few weeks ago, I opened up about how Stephen and I are in the adoption process with an open adoption, so if you missed that blog entry, check it out here. But now that we know it’s a BABY GIRL who our amazing birthmom is carrying for us, I want you to know even more of the back story of why finding out the gender is so significant to me…

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November 21, 2015

AND BABY MAKES 4!

In My Journey To Motherhood

Today is National Adoption Day and because of it Stephen and I wanted to use this day to announce…. We’re expecting a BABY through adoption on May 25!! ::happy dance:: We don’t know the gender until December 21, and I’m so excited to find out right before my Christmas Birthday! I can’t imagine a better gift! After what has been a looooong journey to parenthood these past 4.5 years, behind the scenes, we have been in the adoption process and in mid October we were matched and chosen by amazing birth parents who we have come to love to and adore through each step of this process. The…