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ladies who would like to adopt
I know there are others of you on here, right?
I just wanted to share something..
I'm not sure what's going on with me lately, but adopting a child has been weighing very heavily on me. It's like a pull from my heart that's always there. It's so hard to explain. Nothing has ever done this to me before. I know that we can't possibly adopt anytime soon. It'll be years before we can begin that process, but if this keeps up I might go crazy before then!
I just wanted to share and ask about you laides and what your plans are (if you have any) for adopting. The process seems like a long road, but i'm sure it's worth it. I wish we had a bigger house so we could foster, but then idk..that would be really hard.. 
Re: ladies who would like to adopt
Girl, I swear I could have written that post! In fact, I just told DH about it last week, and how after years of saying, "Oh, I could never be a foster parent..." it has been on my mind non-stop lately. I"m not sure what God's plans are, but there are definitely things weighing heavily on my heart lately.
We've always said that we would wait until the boys were around 10 and look into adopting then. We'll see...I'm beginning to think we may start the process sooner than we had planned. It's funny how God's plans are always different than ours!
Oh Em, I'm so glad i'm not alone!
I guess we have adoption fever!
That's really great, Tiff (and Emily). Honestly, I wish I felt this way.
DH and I have talked about it (although, admittedly, it's been awhile since we had this talk), and while we feel open to the idea of adoption, and we think it's a great thing...we don't feel like it's something we're being "called" to do right now.
It's been almost two years now since we started TTC. I feel like adoption is something that we should start looking into...but I don't want to. I'm probably not explaining this well, but I feel like if we start looking into adoption now, it's just because it's what you're "supposed" to do if you don't have any luck having your own kids...like, it's the next thing to check off the list, you know? And if we're going to adopt, I want to do it because it's what we want to do.
That's how I've begun praying, actually...that God would either give us a biological child soon, or that he would put the desire in my heart to adopt soon.
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I understand what both of you are saying and I totally agree. If adoption is what is supposed to happen for you I'm confident that the desire will grow in your heart. I can tell you that i've always wanted to adopt a child, but it was more of a far off thought. Suddenly, it's like a tree is growing where just seeds were before.
Do you ever lurk on the adoption board? I love to read the stories and learn about the process there.
I thought about adoption but G was not on board with it.
There are so many kids out there who need a loving home and it broke my heart to see the little kids on the website, but I knew that if adoption was in the cards for us things would fall into place and it just never did.
My friend is in the process of adoption and they are getting a 3 month old from Taiwan soon. She went through a christian organization. I don't know if it is an organization that is around here or all over.
I know they had to go through a lot of classes, home studies, had to make a scrapbook type thing for the mother's to look through, raise money, etc. It took about 2 years for this to happen and a lot of disappointment.
I know there was a lady on GP who was looking into fostering and there was a lot they had to go through to. I believe they had to go to classes, home studies, background checks, etc. They ended up not doing it.
I would probably look up on your state website to see what their requirements are for fostering or look up adoption agencies in your area. I wouldn't think it would cost anything to just get information.