A little heads up for my pals who are childless but wish to be otherwise, struggling with infertility, or in the adoption wait — I will be gushing about parenthood in this post, so you may want to skip if your heart is feeling tender. You are in my prayers.…
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Be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 of Sam’s adoption story first if you haven’t already! Now on to Part 3… The morning of Sam’s birth, Mark and I met his birth mom at her house and went to the hospital together. When we arrived at the hospital,…
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Be sure to read Part 1 of Sam’s adoption story first if you haven’t already! Now on to Part 2… I was graciously invited by Sam’s birth mom to join her orientation meeting at the hospital where she would be giving birth, which was about an hour away from our…
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I have been pretty quiet on the blog so far this year. There was a lot happening, most of which I wasn’t ready to blog about yet. Now that we’ve had some time to process everything and are getting settled in as a family, I’m excited to invite you in…
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Friends, it feels surreal to share with you we have been chosen to walk alongside an expectant mother in her pregnancy as she considers an adoption plan for her son who is due in early September. We met her for the first time at our agency in July and visited…
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We’ve officially been waiting 18 months to grow our family through adoption. To be fair, we’ve been waiting A LOT longer than that to grow our family, but that’s the time that has passed since we were home-study approved by our local agency. We were told at the beginning of…
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Today our profile is officially live on our agency’s website! You can visit our profile at the link below. https://www.givingbirthtohope.org/profile-mark-and-adri You might be thinking, ‘You two have been approved to adopt for 15 months. Why weren’t you already on the website?!?!’ This is something I thought many times and called…
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I look at my last post giving a quick update about where things stood with our adoption and I feel so naive. I thought living in the midst of a global pandemic was a chaotic time! Fast forward a few weeks and we’re living in the wake of George Floyd’s…
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A pandemic is a tricky time to be waiting for adoption. There’s no going out with friends or visiting family or looking forward to/taking vacations to distract us from the wait. I walk by the nursery about 100 times per day on the way to the bathroom, kitchen, to visit…
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We are approaching 1 year of waiting for adoption in June, so we thought we do some proactive work to spread the word to help us connect with an expectant family. To help us do that, I created a new Instagram account called @markadri_adopt. There’s not much content there now,…
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