The Journey of Our Family Hoping to Adopt

Monday, June 6, 2011

Why Adoption?

Our decision to choose adoption was not one that came quickly or easily to us. While dating and becoming engaged, we had many conversations about children and the desire we each had to have a large family. We wanted to have children after a few short years of being married and talked about the various activities we would enjoy doing with them. It didn't take long after trying to have children to realize this was going to be a journey for us to build the family we'd always dreamed of. During our journey of infertility (which included various medications, procedures and surgeries) we watched as our two nephews were adopted and how quickly we all fell in love with them. We realized that this was a great way to grow a family and began to hope that this could be our destiny too. We are more than excited to begin this journey of adoption.

In the Beginning.... by Chris

Jenny and I met at BYU-Idaho. But, initially Jenny had gone out with my room-mate a few times. We each went to the homecoming dance but she went with my roommate and I went with another girl. We even have a picture together from that dance with each of our dates and us both smiling without knowing what journey we had ahead, or without knowing that we soon would be dating. On Saturday night October 5, 2002 Jenny came over to deliver some crème brulee in hopes to smooth things over with my roommate whom she told off the day before. She felt bad and wanted to talk things out with a treat. He refused to come out of his room and we ended up sharing the crème brulee while we got to know each other.

She asked me to go country dancing that coming Wednesday and I felt excited to go dancing with this new found comfortable friend. We spoke with each other as though we were friends before coming to this earth. Seeing the initial kindness of her heart in bringing the treat, I knew that I needed to make sure I met her that next week for dancing.

We began to date from there and within six weeks, I went home to meet her family for Thanksgiving. I knew at that moment we were to spend our eternal journey together.

I asked her to marry me where my grandfather proposed to my grandmother down by the falls on the Snake River on Valentine’s Day and we were married on July 5, 2003.

Funny Lines From School...

I was complementing a little boy on the job well done on his paper. I said "Nice job man." He said back to me "I'm not your man."
A few days after Valentine's day I had a funny conversation at school. A child brought me a late valentine and another child asked why he'd done that. I lightly said that the valentine was given to me because the child loved me. He smiled and says "yah, lots of kids love you. I love you too."
The same child as the motorcycle story constantly has funny things to say. When he was being screened for preschool to see if he qualified, he was a little frustrated that it was somewhat difficult. He said the following: "Me not know how you people do this."
I was in the blocks playing with a little boy who was building a motorcycle. He had copied the design from a few other little guys. When he was completed, I said "maybe you should try it out." He replied with "Me not think that's such a good idea."
I was doing a progress report with a little boy who has a Russian mother and a Hispanic Father. I asked him what the name of the shapes were. When I came to the circle, he said "It's round, like a truffle cake."
I was testing a child the other day to see if she qualified for our special ed preschool. One section of the test checks to see if they know their body parts... Where's your nose, your hair, then I asked her where her heel was. She thought for a second, looked down at her feet, then very simply stated, "I'm wearing crocks, my heels are at home."
The day after the Obama election, a child came to school with something important to say. She marched right up to me with her hands on her hips saying with quite the attitude, "Obama Won!" So, in my professional teacher voice, (wanting to know how much she heard at home), I said "What did he win?" She thought for a second, then replied matter-of-factly, "a trophy or something." If you don't think your kids are listening, think again. They may not hear it all, but they catch bits and pieces.
Today I had a funny conversation with a little girl. Keep in mind, her /k/ sound sounds like a /t/ sound. We were talking about the tent that we had set up in the classroom. She said, "I have a tent at home. It's a kitty tent." [Titty tent] Continuing the conversation with a slight smile on my face, I said "is it for kitties?" She answered back very seriously, "I don't have any kitties." [I don't have any titties.] I was laughing so hard by the time she got done talking about her titty tent. :)
When a 4-yr-old boy didn't get a job for the day, he asked "What am I...chop liver?"
When a 4-yr-old girl sat on Santa's lap, he asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She matter-of-factly replies, "Didn't you read my letter?"

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