You're doing what?! China?!

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We know that our decision to adopt from China came out of left field for a lot of people.
Let’s start from the beginning and fill you in.   

Brian and I started talking about kids before we got married and decided that we wanted to wait for a few years and enjoy married life. These first 5 years of marriage have been amazing and have allowed us to really solidify our relationship. We will always be grateful that we gave ourselves time to “be selfish” and enjoy our marriage before having children.

When Brian and I started looking into adoption, we noticed the process is very feelings driven. It's sort of like finding your future spouse, you just know when it feels right. We were able to rule out domestic adoption pretty early in the process as it just didn’t “feel right” to us. International adoption has always intrigued us and we decided to start researching countries. This is another place that we had to go with what felt right. Many countries have strict requirements regarding travel, the age of the children you can adopt, etc and the more we researched, the more China stood out as the best match for us. We began to be able to picture ourselves traveling to China to meet our son or daughter.

We started interviewing agencies in October and decided on one local to us. It was nice to know that we could stop by and talk to our coordinator face to face if we had questions.We have been lucky enough to do several of our meetings at Starbucks. Long to do lists always go over better with a caramel macchiato!

And that brings us to today! We are jumping in with both feet into this process and can't wait to see what the future will bring.