Saturday, October 29, 2011

Our Adoption Route

Now that we've chosen adoption we will fill you in on the route of adoption we are taking.  Because the infant stage has always been very important to me we have been drawn to the domestic infant program.  After doing much research into agencies in our area we decided to go with a local agency in Castle Rock called Hope's Promise.  www.hopespromise.com


So far we have submitted our initial application with basic information and our statement of faith because it is a Christian agency.  Even though it didn't come as a shock, we were excited to get the acceptance letter!  The next step was signing our contract and them handing over to us a HUGE binder of paper and tasks to be completed.  Currently we are in the process of lots of writing, paper chasing and waiting on government departments for fingerprinting, background checks, etc.  After all of this is completed and turned in to the agency our home study will begin.  This includes 3 visits with a social worker interviewing us on our past, current life and goals for our future.  Once the home study is complete we are approved to be included in the waiting pool.  We will also be creating a scrapbook profile of who we are and what our family looks like.  Once we are in the waiting pool, our profile will be shown to birth mothers that fit the criteria of what we both are looking for.  There is no first come-first serve list.  The mother chooses the parents from the scrapbooks. The advantage to this is that it can happen very quickly which would be awesome!

We are hoping to be in the waiting pool by the first of the year.  We know many things can change and God's timing is not always ours but this is our hope.  This past week we have started praying for our baby and the birth mother of our child and ask you to join us.

3 comments:

  1. This is very exciting! We will definitely join in your prayers.

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  2. Thanks Miranda! We really appreciate it!

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  3. We also will be praying for you and your expanding family! We are very excited.

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