Back on the Bike...

and time to revive the blog! Our poor pitiful blog has been neglected now for about a year and a half. I'm envious of those who can document their lives with almost daily posts. Anyway, so I've decided to delete the few posts I did have and start fresh and clean!

This fresh, clean slate will also have a new focus...well, I still want to document our lives, but we are entering a new stage in our lives: PARENTHOOD. However, this is not to share that I'll soon be sporting a baby bump. Not that I won't ever have one, but we've decided to adopt instead.

When we began 'trying' back in February of this year, we always said, we'll adopt if we can't have one naturally. For us, we were going to take it as God's way of saying we weren't meant to have our own. I in no way, look down on or judge those who do decide to go the IVF route, etc., but it just wasn't for me/us. So, saying that, everyone must think that we are infertile. Well, we don't know for 100% sure, but we have discovered some issues that would if nothing else, make it difficult to conceive on our own without some type of intervention.

Over the past several weeks, our small group had been praying for the ministry Hannah's House. This is a great ministry that takes in young, pregnant women that need shelter and support. They take these women in and provide medical, schooling, take them to church, everything! Their goal is to prepare these women to either give their child up for adoption or learn how to take care of the child/themselves if they choose to keep their baby. If you'd like to read more about the program, you can visit their website at plministries.org. The reason we were praying is because Hannah's House is looking to come to Longview and a couple in our small group is in the process of selling their house (two houses down from us!) and they thought it would be perfect.

To make a long, slightly ugly story short, it didn't work out. Hannah's House is still coming to Longview, just not our neighborhood. However, Clint and I never expected it to have an effect on us. Clint came to me one day saying that he couldn't stop thinking about adoption. It was like he was reading my mind because I had the exact same thoughts! Over the next few weeks, adoption just kept popping up, on TV, in conversations with friends, etc. The more we thought and prayed about it, the more we feel that is the direction we should go, regardless if we can have a biological child or not. We are both ecstatic and scared at the same time. We know nothing about adoption, or parenting for that matter! But, we plan to jump in and do our best!

So, back to the title of this post: Clint's back in the saddle on his bike since we are no longer worried about temperatures and pressures and all that other fun stuff. We went on the bike club's Wednesday night ride last night and it was nice to have my best friend back enjoying our favorite past time.

I hope to keep up with this blog on a somewhat regular basis (it will probably be greatly lacking in pictures since that seems to be my hang up in getting posts out) to document our journey through adoption. We know it's a long and often difficult road. We've got our seatbelts on! Through the end of this year, we plan to study, do our research, talk to as many people as possible, and do anything else necessary to become as knowledgeable as we can on adoption. Then, after the first of the year, we plan to start the application process and begin taking our classes and then go from there!