Our Story:
In April 2014 we decided to shift our focus from fertility treatments to adoption. This transition was easy for us because we had considered adoption before we started trying to have a family on our own. When we found American Adoptions something about it just felt right for us, so we began the process of becoming an adoptive family. July 2014 our profile went “active” and our anticipation went through the roof! We were so excited to get “the call” that every time the phone rang for the first few weeks I instantly got butterflies thinking this could be it. As weeks passed I started to settle in and life got back to normal.
The hustle of summer faded and we started to accept that things may take a while to happen. October 30th was a Thursday and normally we would have both been gone at work, however, that day we spent with family after the loss of Andy’s Grandpa. We arrived home from the funeral around 2 in the afternoon and I noticed the answering machine was blinking. I said to Andy looks like another telemarketer had something to say! We were both standing in the kitchen as I hit play on the machine, instantly we both knew this was it. The lady introduced herself as Lara from American Adoptions. She said she was from the Arkansas office and was working with a birth mom from Arkansas that had selected us as the adoptive family for her baby and we should call her back when we could.
