Now the Fun Begins!

Well today we start all the fun stuff for our Polish Adoption. We received our Approval Letter and Adoption Agreement.  This is one step closer to bringing our little one home! I exclaimed to Sean that we have to make sure to keep our approval letter safe so it can go in the baby book. Its funny the things that come to mind as important when your excited.

As Thanksgiving is only a couple days away it only seems right that good news comes when everyone is remembering what they are thankful for.  So this Thanksgiving Sean and I are thankful for all the experiences that have brought us to this point, our family, our friends, and each other.

Now we just have to let everyone know!

Everyone Waits

We have mailed our application to the adoption agency! Now we are waiting to hear from them.  This is going to be the first of many waiting periods in our adoption.  Myself being the type of person who likes to have control over the situation is going crazy and driving my husband crazy.  I am trying to keep myself busy by doing projects around the house. I am completely sure that by the time our child comes homes I will have driven my husband, family, and friends insane.  I have been working on to-do lists in my head all week and sorting them by how long it will take to complete.  Sean seems to get this glazed over look when I start talking about how much we have to get ready before our little one arrives. However, yesterday in church instead of listening to the sermon he designed a new storage system for our laundry room. So it seems I am wearing off on him.  Well my parents just got here to help paint so off we go.

How We Got Here

I thought my first post should be on how my husband (Sean)and I got to this point in our marriage.  I was like any other young married women who thought that getting pregnant was gonna be easy. I figured I would get pregnant within a couple of months of trying.  However 3 1/2 years later and thousands of dollars worth of fertility treatments and 1 surgery we were no closer to growing our family.  It was a hard decision to decide to stop fertility treatments.  My husband and I went over all the what ifs: What if 1 more treatment was the one that worked? What if we just took a break and then restarted treatments? What if we still didn't get pregnant after all that? And countless more thoughts and ideas.   So with the final decision made to stop treatments and focus back on us as a couple and our marriage the baby talk turned to adoption.  I started doing fact-finding on domestic and international adoption. Even though I did some research on domestic adoption I always figured that we would end up adopting internationally. So...after several months of researching countries and adoption agencies we settled on our short list.  

So with the decision to adopt set in place Sean and I began talking about how to tell our family and friends.  Very few people knew that we were experiencing infertility. Actual the majority of all of our friends and family didn't know about it. We did not know how our families would react to finding out that we were unable to conceive and that we're going to be adopting a child from another country all at once. We didn't want our child be treated any different because he/she was not biologically ours. We began testing the waters so to say by telling our closest friends who had been with us and supported us during our infertility. At this point we decided to tell everyone about the infertility and adoption when we had signed the contract with an adoption agency.  As I am writing this we have not told everyone about our adoption. Our hope is that this blog will help our family and friends understand our decisions to grow our family by adoption and keep everyone updated on the happenings of our adoption.