We're expecting....in about three years!

Well....it's official! We're expecting.....in about three years. Kyle and I have begun our process to adopt a son or daughter from Honduras!  We've also decided to join some of our other friends in blogging about our adoption story -- not only do we think it'll be neat for our child to know about the ups and downs and excitement of our journey to bring them home, but we also feel that helping others become aware of the adoption process can be educational, encouraging, enlightening, etc. We've also found a lot of encouragement and support through following some of our other friends' adoption stories that are in many different stages of the process -- maybe someone else will be encouraged by our story.

Adopting is something that we've talked about doing well before we were even married. Care for orphans and adoption into our family is certainly a way we expected to grow our family at some stage - and the Lord has made it abundantly clear that now is the time. He is the Father to the fatherless and we feel a strong calling to give a home to the parentless in the world.

Currently we're working on gathering all of our paperwork to send off to Honduras so that we can be entered on the waiting list for a referral for a child. This part of the process is where Cindy will excel -- lists with things "to do" on them which can neatly be checked off! However, as we've started to delve into the process we're realizing it is not going to be quite as easy as it sounds. Papers to be notarized here and apostilled there and letters from the bank, police, friends, pastor, medical evaluations, psychological evaluations, and on and on.....

Tomorrow we travel 6 hours round trip for a 3 hour home study orientation. We're excited to meet the director and to get this significant portion of the process under way. 

More to come on the agency we're using, the Honduras program we're enrolled in, and our thoughts as a whole about the process.

Our child is growing in our heart, rather than under Cindy's heart....and we can't wait to meet the child that God already knows is out there for us!!