Starting our family dreams...

We are using this blog as a way to keep our family and friends in contact with what is currently happening in our lives. After much thinking, reading and researching, we have decided to adopt internationally. We are very excited and nervous about the process and we are anxious to start our family.

We have been together now for 6 years and have been married for 3 1/2. We wanted to start a family right away, but our efforts have been unsucessful. We suspected that infertility might be an issue with us, and as such discussed many other ideas about family. Adoption was something we discussed every once in a while, but was waiting for our lives to settle down and the practice to mature. We made the decision in December 2005 to adopt. We researched several countries but something about China kept pulling us back in, and it was Dan's country of choice all along.

We have started the paperwork involved with adopting, and will be starting our homestudy shortly with our Social Worker, Joan. We are looking forward to meeting other Canadian families that are going through or have gone through the process. We welcome any comments or questions and any advise from these families, and our own family and friends.

We decided on Family Outreach International as our agency and liason of choice, and have started collecting the necessary documents (birth certificates, passports, and marriage licence) required to get the ball rolling. There have been many late nights of reading books on the subject, and discussing our hopes and dreams about the upcoming 2 years.

We are so overjoyed at the thought of adopting a beautiful little one from the People's Republic of China. Let the pape