A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Our adoption journey has begun, for real this time. We have tried to start the process three times now, and with most things, apparently the third time is the charm. Both of the earlier attempts were interrupted by circumstances outside our control, and each time we surrendered our dream of growing our family with heavy hearts, but with a determination to return and try again as soon as we could.

That time has finally come, and we are over the moon about it! Our adoption study has been completed in what might be world-record time, and our profile is going live with LDS Family Services either today or tomorrow. After seven years of waiting, it feels great to be finally doing something.

Of course, once we are all up and running we will just start waiting for something different, but we feel confident that Heavenly Father has a hand in building the families of His children, and we have faith that He will put us together with the right birth parents. Somehow waiting to be selected for adoption feels different than waiting to get pregnant. We know for sure that there are birth parents out there looking for families, but we never knew for sure if we would ever get pregnant. Even though it might not seem that way to others, to us, the decision to adopt gives us a greater sense of comfort and control over our situation than trying to get pregnant for so many years did. Maybe that is only something a couple who struggles with infertility can understand.

So we are launched now. Off on our journey to grow our eternal family. We don't know how we will get there, and don't know if the journey will be long or short, smooth or bumpy. We don't even know what our destination is for sure. But we are confident that we will know it when we get there.