Our Journey

For those that are reading this blog for the first time let me introduce myself. I am Millie and a mother of a 7 week old newborn boy. He is the best gift I have ever gotten but I am getting ahead of myself. Twelve years ago this June my husband and I started trying to have children. We tried and tried and tried until we finally got pregnant via IVF. We were thrilled but that was soon ending. I had a miscarriage and we made the decision to stop treatments. We had tried it all and were done. At this point, I needed to have some surgery and we also decided that is was best if we inquired about adopting since we were unable to have biological children. We have friends that had adopted and were thrilled with the prospect of finally being parents. While I was healing from surgery, we began the paperwork pregnancy. Those of you who have been through adoption know exactly what I am talking about. For about 9 months, you fill out form after form and then wait until you are contacted. Well, we had filled out all the papers, had our homestudy and were prepared to wait. We did not have to wait long. In January of this year, we were contacted by a birthmother who wanted us to have the child she was carrying. We prayed and thought about this a great deal and decided that this was the child we had been praying for. In February, we sat down with the birthmother and our attorney to make final plans. We then began to wait again! All went well and we now have Jonathan! He is our true gift from God and worth every day of waiting. This is why I have titled our blog "Those Who Wait Upon the Lord." We have waited and God blessed us in His time.