The Road Less Traveled

I don’t really know how to begin this blog other than by admitting that I should probably have started it much sooner. For those of you who do not yet know, Craig and I are adopting. We did not come to this decision lightly by any means. In fact, we spent about five years struggling to determine how we wanted our life to unfold in regard to having children. We repeatedly weighed all of our options, going back and forth discussing all the pros and cons of the different roads we could choose to travel from here on out. We were more or less stuck in our careful deliberations. Finally one year ago today on an ordinary evening at home, we were flipping through the TV channels and landed on a local special called “Love Knows No Borders” about orphans and adoption in Bulgaria. Both of us took this event as the sign we had been waiting for to guide us toward a decision. That night we resolved to investigate adoption agencies with Bulgaria programs as soon as the new year had begun. We followed through with our plan in January and on Valentine’s Day 2009 sent in our application for an adoption to our agency of choice. Yesterday, only one day off the one year mark, we got word from our agency that our adoption dossier has been registered with the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice which means we are officially waiting parents now.

Of course, the 365 days that have passed since we saw “Love Knows No Borders” have been filled with many adoption related tasks and lots of learning which I will recount in the posts to come, so stay tuned.