A Peaceful Heart

God is amazing with the peace He gives us and the way He has a plan for us from the very beginning.

At the end of next month, my husband and I will be attending a (free) orientation at a very well known adoption agency. More specifically, we will be attending the Domestic Infant Adoption Orientation class and we could not be more excited. I am still looking into agencies and possibly adoption attorneys but I thought I would get the ball rolling and see what this particular agency has to say. I've always heard about them on the show Adoption Stories and they were also featured on 16 and Pregnant. I've read about them and researched their site and emailed back and forth with a lady who works there.

Kyle and I told our parents this weekend. My younger sister already knew because I had been talking with her about it. I was very hesitant to tell my parents because I thought they would say that we are too young and crazy for doing this at our ages. I could not have been more wrong and I am so thankful for that. I was nervous about telling them all day yesterday so finally, as I was helping my Mom with the dishes, I said, "Ya'll will never believe where we are going next month." My dad responded with, "Alaska? Boston? Charleston?" It was kind of funny but very appropriate because Kyle and I have been talking about going to either Alaska or Boston next year and Charleston sometime this year. I just laughed and said no and told them I knew they would say we were young and crazy. I then told them we would be attending an orientation on adoption. I really had prepared myself for words I didn't want to hear. Don't get me wrong - my parents are the most supportive people on this planet and for that I am truly grateful. I consider my parents to be the best parents on this planet. I just thought they would say with me being 25 and Kyle being 24, we had many years ahead of us to still try and have children. I had mentally prepared what I would say to them. Well, I didn't have to say any of the mentally prepared statements. They had some questions and of course my dad brought up the cost factor, "I have a friend who adopted from Guatemala a few years ago and it cost him over $26,000." I let them know we are currently only interested in domestic adoption. They took it well. A few hours later my mom and I went walking and she brought it up and had a few questions. When I told her how relieved I was that they were so encouraging, she said of course they were going to be encouraging. She then said that she always watches me and my husband with our niece and just knows that we are more than ready to be parents and will be wonderful parents to a lucky baby. I was really happy she said that. She did ask what would happen if I got pregnant during the adoption process (like, if I get pregnant and we have already been matched with a baby). I told her we would continue on with the adoption and look at it as God's will for us.

I am so thankful to know that we have our parents support.

We are prepared for what people are going to say about it...and honestly, we don't care about the negativity. Sure, it might hurt a little but we feel like God has been saying that it's our time to become parents and we couldn't be happier. I know we still have so much to learn about adoption.