The adoption process, our process, has been an interesting one. It’s a mix of educating (ourselves and others), high emotions, long waiting, and biding time. Being the nerdy English teacher that I am (please don’t make that a reason to judge the writing, ha!), I really wanted to try out starting a blog. And what better topic than the thing that has consumed our life and will consume, in the best way possible, the rest of our lives—adoption. Hence, where and how our blog was born.

The last 16 months have been eye opening (I know, I’ve told you that already), and it has left us in a whirlwind. As we’ve devoured and immersed ourselves in every bit of adoption information we can, it gets hard to sort that information out to share with others. We had a few goals/hopes to attain through starting this blog:

• To educate others about our process, and give them a perspective of what we are experiencing through our eyes. We know it can kind of be a downer (especially lately), but it’s honest. That’s where we are right now. We can’t wait, I’m sure you can’t either, when our blog, our experience, has that cheery sound to it. We know it’s coming, but at times we are growing impatient and the blog gives us an outlet for the tough times and a megaphone for the joyous ones.
• To give our story, our journey, our voice. I love having the ability to write with strong emotion, or a snarky undertone if I feel like it. I can completely inject my personality and emotions into what we are experiencing through writing.
• To solidy and concretely mark this process that we are going through. What a beautiful gift that will be. To be able to look back at this incredible, sometimes bumpy road that will lead us to the most amazing thing in the world—our future family with a child or children.

Our blog has given us solace in the fidgety moments where we don’t know what to do or where to go next. It’s offered us a sounding board when we don’t know how or where to start in asking for support from family and friends.   Writing is so multi-faceted, so simplex. It’s cathartic, an outlet, a way to educate, and a means to empower. So blessed to write this blog.

~Chelsea