Backstory - Jonathan's Adoption

Many of you who have been close to us know the backstory to how we got where we are, but for those of you who do not, here it is in a nutshell:

Mike and I have now been married almost 8.5 years. Our first two years we were happy not to have any kids come along. We selfishly wanted that time to ourselves before starting a family. Like most couples, we assumed that when we wanted to have kids, it would be a simple process without any roadblocks.

Much to our surprise, that was not the path God had chosen for us. After more than a year of the ups and downs of trying to have a baby, we went in for testing to see if we could find out what was wrong. The answer from the doctors was that we would have about a 1 in a million chance of conceiving on our own and that we should pursue fertility treatments. At the time, one of my nephews was diagnosed with muscular distrophy and they started checking to see if it was hereditary. We decided to wait on meeting with the fertility doctors until we got that answer.

In the mean time, some friends from our Sunday School class came to talk to us about adoption and about a possibility out there. We felt like God was leading us in that direction for a reason and we began the journey of all that is entailed in domestic adoption. In the spring of 2008, we had all of our paperwork turned in and our homestudy done. In August, we got the call that we had been chosen by a birth mom who was due in January. That was a very exciting time. Then in the end of September, we got the call that she had some complications and ended up delivering the baby girl stillborn. I know many don't understand the feeling of loss from the adoptive parents, after all, she hadn't been growing in my tummy. The difference was, though, that she already a home in my heart. One week later, the adoption agency called us and asked if we were willing to meet with another mom. Less than 3 weeks later, our precious Jonathan David was born and came home with us. He is a perfect fit for our family and we are so thankful for the way God directed our journey to lead us to him.