Wow! It has been a while since I blogged! I apologize for letting this fall between the cracks. There are going to be some changes with my blog. I am not sure how that change will look in the end, but I know it has to be different to stay organized.
The Doop's have more than starting back with my blog and talking about changing it going on. For those of you who have not heard yet, we are adopting!!
Young girls dream about their perfect wedding to their Prince Charming to be followed by getting pregnant and having perfect little babies.
I am certainly not a typical girl. WDD is certainly not a typical guy. He is, however, my Prince Charming. Our wedding was the perfect wedding for us. Our children will be the perfect little children God has planned for us.
As a young girl, I dreamed of my family pictures being taken and I am surrounded by children from all walks of life and all different ethnicities. Like I said, I am not typical. I dreamed of me with my myriad of children but I never dreamed of that life happening with my Prince Charming.
As a young boy, WDD dreamed of a little boy and little girl with his and his sister's amazing hair and little bump in the middle of their nose. He dreamed of having these children with his wife. The children of his dreams had his DNA.
I grew into a woman who knew something wasn't "right". Something within my body wasn't acting "normal". I use these terms loosely because those are the terms society would use. This may be a little on the TMI side, but I'm pretty transparent so here we go....I don't have a regular cycle. Rarely to never do my eggs mature and go through a full cycle within my body. This causes cysts in my ovaries. This also impacts many other areas of my life. I am hairy....I mean HAIRY. I sweat A LOT. I hold extra weight in my middle, regardless of how many crunches I do or how little carbs I eat, I will hold extra weight in my middle. If I have a period, it is never regular in any aspect of the word. I do not ovulate.
These are all things that society would deem as not being "normal" or "right". I have known for a long time that getting pregnant naturally would require a God sized miracle.
This does not break my heart nor do I believe that I am any less capable to mother. I believe this is why God placed a yearning in my heart for adoption at a young age.
There are children, thousands and thousands of them, who are unable to have parents just like I am unable to have children.
The difference is, I have a family and friends and a wonderful husband who support and love me. I wake up every morning to a home full of love, encouragement, and support. These children do not. They do not know what it is like to have a Mommy or Daddy hold them at night during a nightmare or wake them up every morning or have their request of "Can Deddy make HIS pancakes for breakfast?" granted.
God placed in me a love for WDD. He also placed within WDD's heart a love for adoption. It was amazing to watch WDD's heart change and a hole grow that will only be filled by the adoption of our child.
Fast forward a little bit to present day. The law of Alabama says that a couple cannot adopt until they have been married 3 years. The adoption agency we are using, Lifeline Children's Services, states in their qualifications for domestic adoption that the couple must be married for three years before filing the adoption application.
Our anniversary is April 6. We have approximately 9 months before we can file an application for adoption.
Adoption, like birthing a child, is very expensive. The price for a domestic adoption is approximately $22,500. (YIKES!)
We have started a savings account and had a yard sale to start the fundraising. With both of us being teachers, we do not regularly have $22,500 sitting around so fundraising and savings will be a large part of our lives in the upcoming year.
We are going to use this blog to talk about our adventure and all the aspects of this adventure. I am going to keep posting our DIY things and recipes and just things we do on a daily basis.
Please fill free to ask questions, pray with us, help us raise funds, etc.
Welcome back to this fun and crazy life of mine!!
