Waiting Children

So as Justin and I had been researching various adoption agencies, we became very familiar with the term "waiting children". This term applies to lists of children who have some reason they are not the most "desirable" by some to adopt. These reasons vary drastically from very minor medical conditions (even as simple as diabetes) to major medical conditions (where the child will need life long full time care) but it also includes sibling groups and any child who is a little older than the baby/toddler phase as most people adopting want an infant.

Justin and I spent a long time discussing if we would be comfortable adopting from a waiting child list, at first we knew that we could love a sibling group and we were fine with a slightly older child, but not too much (it doesn't make sense for me to have a 10 year old). We also decided that based on the medical condition, we could be comfortable adopting a child with medical needs... after all we are very lucky that we have nice health insurance that will cover an adopted child and any needs he/she will have.

Once we decided that, I began searching Waiting Children sites like crazy. I think by this point I have seen every child available for adoption that is listed online. Our search included children from every state and countries around the world. One of the unique differences between the United States and other countries when it comes to these waiting children lists is that most countries restrict the posting of pictures along with the information on a general public website. So while it was "fun" to look at all the babies and children that we could actually "see", we also spent time reading pages and pages of listings with a quick two sentence bio about a child half a world away. It's hard to think that from those few sentences we will find our child, it is just such limited information on which to go, but we have faith that the right child will be clear to us.

Thanks everyone for your prayers and support during this adventure.