Adoption story - Blake + Nikki


 Nikki and Blake were immediately so dear to me when they signed on with me early last year, in March.  They had open hands to whatever the Lord may bring into their lives and that was reflected in their adoption journey.  

They never gave up on the process, and are now the proud parents to two sweet boys.






Nikki shares her view below!  I hope it will be an encouragement to those still waiting or considering adoption.

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Our journey to adoption was a long one. Although we were parents to a wonderful son, we struggled for over three years with secondary infertility.  

We first tried adopting through foster care, but it was not a good fit for our family at the time.  We knew the Lord had called us to adoption, but we had a hard time thinking big enough to see how it was going to work.  We could not wrap our minds around how we were going to afford the costs associated with adoption.  

Through the entire process (from infertility to placement), the Lord has taught us so much about waiting on Him. There were times that we couldn't see the waiting for what it was.  We took the waiting as the Lord saying no to more children.  

We've learned that when our prayers are in line with God's will and His perfect plan, not having them answered immediately is not always a 'no'.  God wasn't telling us 'no' to having more children.  He was simply telling us 'not right now'.  

When it was time, the Lord provided for us to begin the process (with $8 to spare!) with CAC and our home study fees.  

We started working with Gretchen in March and were ready to begin presenting our profile in May.  

We presented our profile for the first time on May 21, 2017.  Even though we only presented a few months, those were some very hard months. Four times we were contacted by agencies that an expectant mom had narrowed her choices down to us and one other family.  

Each of those four times the expectant mom chose the other family. Those were the toughest days.  We questioned several times why we seemed to keep getting down to the "final two," but never were the family selected.  

The short answer is those babies were not ours.  Our Father knew the families those babies would go to before they were created and he knew exactly which baby would be joining our family.  

One day --we were officially matched with our birth mom on our wedding anniversary.  I love how God even works out the tiny details.  

Our son Robert was born in mid October, and we were blessed to spend time with him and his birth mom in the hospital.


Over the past several months, we have gotten to know and love our birth mom through our open adoption. 

Open adoption is not always easy.  Ours definitely isn't, but we know that it's so worth it. We pray that our birth mom see Jesus through us and come to know Him.  

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