tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497545338981923218.post2411620201470904475..comments2012-10-17T02:48:40.041-05:00Comments on Our Adoption Journey: Almost one year later...David and Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08950785560568655697noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497545338981923218.post-40443926279674007032009-07-27T23:20:59.327-05:002009-07-27T23:20:59.327-05:00Hi Jennifer,
I'm new to your blog, just hoppe...Hi Jennifer,<br /><br />I'm new to your blog, just hopped over from Holly's. <br /><br />I can TOTALLY relate to everything you said here, and I like your analogies for people not immersed in the adoption world. We should have a name for them, don't you think...something like muggles only different. :)<br /><br />All I can say is...hang in there! I completely agree with Rebekah that no one can tell you what you should do, but I'm also living testimony that sometimes miracles really do happen. <br /><br />Right before we got our call, I was pretty down and out. We had been waiting just over nine months and I was very close to wanting to give up and throw in the towel, despite all the hard work we had done to that point. I was becoming someone I didn't like very much, and it scared me. <br /><br />But then, in the blink of an eye, everything changed and we became parents. All I can say is, the journey and struggle we went through to get to our son were completely worth it. I hope you'll be saying that someday soon too, and I hope you don't give up!!<br /><br />MelbaMelbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16058896619253076094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497545338981923218.post-28848964073631750892009-07-27T20:52:29.222-05:002009-07-27T20:52:29.222-05:00Jennifer, you are pretty much taking the words rig...Jennifer, you are pretty much taking the words right out of my mind! There are days that I have complete faith and trust that this will happen, and then there are days that I just think, "This is such a long shot. It's never going to happen." I read your post and was totally feeling your thoughts about the uncertainty of it all, and then I heard the choir song for this week at church...Bow the Knee. I don't know if you've heard it before, but it is totally a song for us! Please let me know if you haven't and I'll find a link for you to hear it. Anyhow, I hope that this time next year we are both sitting at the park with our babies, praising the Lord for His faithfulness in both of our lives. It can happen. It WILL happen if that's God's will for us. And if it isn't, He will bring us something better than we could've ever known (Jeremiah 29:11). Prayers for you today!Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090421642577437909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497545338981923218.post-55573400556634890962009-07-18T12:27:12.797-05:002009-07-18T12:27:12.797-05:00Man have I been there... I HATED the "you'...Man have I been there... I HATED the "you'll get pregnant" comments! I wanted to punch someone in the face every time it was said!<br /><br />I'm so sorry for your pain...I wish Ben and I were the only couple that ever had to go through this...it is so very difficult...<br /><br />We were so broken after 4 months of waiting that we decided then that after a year we were going to be done...we just couldn't take anymore. We ended up getting matched at the end of month 5, but even the months following, until baby was born, we talked about it, in case R changed her mind.<br /><br />Im sure we would have moved on to adopt out of foster care or something, but a break would have been needed. No one can tell you what you should do...I'm sure the world would say, "renew!" and think you crazy if you didn't...but I get it. Sometimes you barely have the energy to make it through another day....<br /><br />There's no way I could have taken another year...it is just too hard.<br /><br />Big hugs.Rebekahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920816691217676013noreply@blogger.com