Road to Rowan

Today is Easter, and as I listen to the song, “It is Well With My Soul” the lyrics “this mountain that is in front of me, will be thrown into the midst of the sea.” 🎉🎉🎉 causes my souls to rejoice!! Rowan, In this season of waiting, it is easy to feel like we are camping out in “Saturday.” Even when we do not see it yet, God always comes through on His promises.  His Sundays.  This Sunday, we celebrate His greatest promise. He is risen! You are our daughter, and you have been prayed for.  You are so very loved by God, and by us!  We rejoice over you, and we look forward with hope, in sharing this day with you in the future!

  We have been in a holding pattern, waiting to hear back about our first review of our home study, and in this time, we received an email about a handful of children who are in need of homes.  We felt such a strong connection to one of the children, and we are so hopeful that they are our child!  This child is not listed publicly, so we are waiting to give any more details until we are, hopefully, matched with them! (Even then, we won’t be able to post pictures or give any identifying information!) All we know at this point, is that we are one of three families reviewing this child’s file.  We have gone through a medical review with our International Adoption Doctor, we have filled out a TEN page questionnaire on how we plan to help and care for this child now and forever, and we have been hopeful in prayer.   We would, more than anything, love to bring this child into our family, if we are the best fit.  We love this little person so very much alread...

  Our home study visits are complete, as well as our psychological evaluation.  And now we start our second "go" at waiting. Our first round of waiting, was when we gathered all of our paperwork and waited to schedule our home study.  Now that we have everything on our end complete, we need to wait on the approval from our agency.      Something I have learned already, is that there is a lot of waiting in adoption.  (and we're just at the beginning!)  But there is also sanctification in waiting, as well.  While I'd love for every process to go smoothly, and I pray for that daily, I also see that there has been blessings in the waiting as well.  Back in February, had our home study process gone a little quicker, we might not be adopting from Korea, or we might have had to have a complete home study update, tacking on even more time.   It hasn't been that long, but I can already look back, and be thankful for how that waiting he...

    This announcement is long and coming for our family!  For many years, we have talked about "someday" adding to our family through adoption, and the exciting thing, is that the time is now! We are adopting a little boy or little girl from South Korea, and we could not be more excited!! (Read on for details!)   Though we have talked about this for years, it is only in the last 9 months that we have been actively walking down this path, searching for the direction we were meant to go.  First, we explored fostering or adopting through the foster care system.  We were starting from a stance of whole heatedly supporting reconciliation, and if it were ever possible, we would adopt.  We took classes, and prepared our home for  welcoming one or many children into our home, one at a time.  And then I got a new job, with much different (and later) working hours.  The case worker that was working with us was very clear with us that we need...

Our Sweet Rowan,  We have just begun the road to you!  We don’t yet know your face, the sound of your voice, or your personality, but the day that we will know you, and that you will be in our arms, is what has us doing everything we can to make that happen.  We have done background checks, finger prints, filled out loads of papers, sent things out to be signed and checked, ran errands and doctors appointments, and we are currently waiting to hear back from those background checks, so we can move forward with our home study (where they make sure we are a good family for you!). Your brother, Palmer, and sister, Quinn, have been excited in each step, praying for you, talking about you, and they Going along on doctor appointments.  They both thought it was SO silly that I had to pee in a cup, as one of the checks to make sure I’m healthy. Palmer said “Mom!  I can’t wait to tell sissy that you peed in a cup!” 😂 They love you Ro, and they talk about you all the ti...