answers to questions

The past few weeks have been really important for our adoption journey bcause they have caused us to question and confirm what we are doing. Here's where we've been over the past month and where we are now:

We had a couple of conversations with friends and an adoption worker, and began to wonder if a domestic adoption could save us a lot of money, fund raising, and time yet still meet a real need. So we called DCS. We talked to two other local agencies. We even had breakfast with a domestic adoption worker who had adopted from China. All of these people and places told us the same thing: that the Waiting Child program in China was for us. These other programs had older children or a limited number of children with great families already in line waiting for them. Those aren't what we feel called to pursue. They are real needs and great people will step up to adopt these kids, but not what we feel called to do.

It seems that there is a real need to adopt special needs boys from China. In our conversations, we've found out that special needs boys are waiting for a home, but the same is not true for Chinese girls. That was news to us, but it seems that the bigger need is to adopt boys. Granted, there are needs everwhere. Granted, our program is not for everyone. But we felt confirmed that we were in the right program for us.

So, it's a boy. And we are excited about that fact.