It all started more than 3 years ago. Well, if you're counting the one year of praying before contacting an adoption agency than it's more than 4 years ago. Owen and I felt incredibly blessed when we gave birth to Faith our daughter in 2002. Her story is a miracle in itself. But we felt there must be more. Granted we wanted a sibling for Faith, but it was more than that. We thought if we already sponsor a child from Quito, Ecuador and a child from Thailand, maybe it's time that we did something more, much much more.
We made the decision to adopt and started involving our wonderful friends. They say "it takes a village to raise a child," well in our case, it took a village to start the adoption process.
We had a garage sale and all our friends brought their "junk," oops I mean their treasures to our house. We raised enough money to start the application process.
The front our house were full of things and people. The "professional" garage shoppers came at 6:45am!!! We were hardly set up. Boy, did they bargain.
Friends and family came to help out that actual day. Others had sold their prized sports memorabilia on Ebay. One dear friend (Janice & her 2 kids) set up a lemonade stand in front of their house to raise money for our adoption.
Thus, began our journey of adopting.
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