So, I figure if I'm going to write a blog about our journey to adoption I should give the back story of how we came to this place.
Michael and I were married on November 21, 2009. We both knew from the start we wanted a family one day, but we agreed to wait a year before trying to start our family. We made it 9 months before I convinced Michael to go ahead and start trying. We tried for a year with no success, so we went to my doctor to start all the loads of testing. After all the testing, Michael was diagnosed with azoospermia. This, of course, was heartbreaking for us both; however, since Michael is adopted himself we had talked about adopting even if we had biological children.
Of course as soon as we knew adoption was the route we would be taking, we begin researching adoption agencies all over the US. I found one in California and we got as far as being sent the contract to work with them. Because Michael's parents had been through adoption, we had them look over the contract. They realized that this company was more of a facilitator and we would spend tons of money with no promise of a baby. So, we were back to the drawing board.
We took some time away and happened upon an informational meeting about foster care. We went to the meeting and decided this was something we felt might be a good route for us. Weeks later the doors opened for us to go through a private, Christian agency for foster care. So, we went through the classes and home study. We were finally licensed as foster parents in June of this year. Unfortunately, things just did not pan out how they said they would. So, we decided to part ways.
Now, here we are today and we are back to looking at adoption through an agency.
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