The beginning of our journey.

Many of you know the struggle we’ve had with infertility the last 3 years, it’s been a whirlwind of emotions, you never expect to be the “one” who goes through it. Through the many testing, prodding’s, charting, appointments, procedures, drugs and so on, the Lord has always brought us through. I know that God is using this in our lives to strengthen our marriage, to build our character, and draw us closer to him. A verse that I meditate on often “Blessed is he who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord”. Jeremiah 17 V7

To get through those hard, dark, disheartening days where I felt so low and useless this was the verse that I clung to. That I must trust in him, his plans and his ways for they are far better then I could ever imagine. Traveling down the road of infertility is not one you choose, but one that God allows. A wise friend once told me, “The Lord finds you worthy to go through this”. Hearing that statement was a major reality check of what I am living this life for, not for me and my wants, but for the Lord and his plans.

In the end Matt and I know that we want to be parents, the beautiful thing is that there are various ways that this can happen. We came to a standstill in the medical world, do we do injections, or do we do in vetro fertilization? The cost to the “chance” was a big factor---spend thousands of dollars on something that there is no guarantee in the end you will have a baby, this left us without a feeling peace.  I also was struggling with the medications, hormones, side effects, and the unknown of the long-term effect this would have on my body. With much prayer I had to confess to my husband that throughout our process of wanting to conceive a child, Adoption has always been around me. We had always talked about adopting, you know “someday after we have a few of our own”. That someday is now for us. We could not be more happy to share that we are in the process of a Domestic Adoption. We do understand the cost is quite large, we trust that the Lord is going to provide for us, however he plans to do so. We have peace that in the end of this process no matter the cost, we will have a baby, what a gift that will be.

Thank you for following along, we hope you will join us as we have begun our journey in praying for us, provision of money, and our future baby.

Many blessings to you,

Emily