“Someday we’ll start that journey,” I would say. I have probably said those words a hundred times in the last decade out loud and in my head. Someday when were ready, when were not so overwhelmed, when we pay off our debt, when we finish our house projects, when we have a savings account, when…
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When we married in 2010, we knew we wanted a family. Adoption was discussed at that time. We were thinking maybe have a biological child first and then adopt. We were in our mid 30’s when we married so we thought we had better get started in a couple of years. After trying to…
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The timing was all wrong… we were living in an RV at the time- trying to decide if we were building or buying our next home. There were 5 of us and a guinea pig living in an RV on my (Austin’s) parents land. Though we had talked about adopting in the past, it wasn’t on…
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In 2019, Cam and I were coming to the end of our 3-years of living in gorgeous Edinburgh, Scotland. It was an adventure for sure. Cam was finishing up his studies and I was finishing up exploring the beautiful architecture with our little adventure buddy Calvin Jack, who was then 4 years old and…
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July 7th, 2021 we did our final post adoption report. We have officially completed every step of our Liberian adoption. What a thing to celebrate! However, we wish we could tell you adoption was easy. We wish we could say it always felt “worth the work.” We wish we could say we loved our…
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