We are adopting! Thank you everyone for your love and support the past 4 1/2 years as we have tried to build our family. We’re excited to announce that it is our hope and prayer to add on to our family through adoption.
The journey can be long, and the timing is unsure, but we will do our best to keep you updated here to see where we are with the process.
Much love,
Anne and Jim
"Father,
thank You for the blessing and victory You have in store for my future. Thank
You for allowing me to see and hear in my heart the good things You have
planned. I choose to keep my eyes on You and declare Your blessing over my life
in Jesus's name." 1 Kings 18:41
My dear friend, Jennifer sent this link to me today (luckily I was at home on lunch, because I was a blubbering mess).
Jim and I are coming upon our four year wedding anniversary. Also known as, to me, our four years of waiting to grow our family. FOUR YEARS. I vividly remember reading blogs written by women sharing stories of their fertility/baby struggles, and it taking 4+ years. I remember thinking "I just can't imagine..." "how do you get through that?.." "wouldn't you just give up?!.."
I canimagine itnow, because I've lived it. You get through it by waking up every morning, by breathing, by the grace of God, by the support of friends and family, and because the desire to be parents was placed in your hearts before you even knew each other. Yes, you do want to give up. You want to give up on trying every month with no success. You want to give up on injecting your body full of drugs that make you fat, bloated, bruised and a raging emotional bitch. You want to give up spending thousands of dollars to lose two babies in two years. You want to give up on your marriage because you want your spouse to have the family they deserve. You want to give up on yourself because you feel like your body, your womanhood is failing you. You want to give up on adoption because all you really know is disappointment and heartbreak. But you never give up. You keep moving forward. You keep loving each other through it. You keep praying in hopes It’s because He’s forming something so breathtaking and beautiful…it cannot be rushed.
Thank you Father that your plans stand firm even when I try to take over. Help me to wait patiently on you and to trust you to bring your plans in your way and in your time. Amen.
A friend from high school, Shannon, that has supported Jim and I for months through our adoption journey, sent me this song today. She prayed that it would speak to me. It did.
"Far be it from me to not believe,
even when my eyes can't see.
And this mountain that's in front of me,
will be thrown into the midst of the sea. "
This song is on repeat in my office this morning. It was harder than expected to get to work today. But I did it. And the encouragement and support I needed this morning came in all forms: calls, texts, funny pictures, animal pictures, and this song. It's impossible to put into words what your support means to us.
"Father, thank You for the blessing and victory You have in store for my future. Thank You for allowing me to see and hear in my heart the good things You have planned. I choose to keep my eyes on You and declare Your blessing over my life in Jesus's name." 1 Kings 18:41
