--An ancient Chinese belief
We are so excited to share our wonderful news with you and hope that you share in our excitement. This has been a wonderful journey so far and we look forward to sharing the remainder of it with you.
Michael and I were talking the other day and we agreed that it feels like we have come full circle. We feel like God has had this plan for us and we just had to wait for the timing to be right. Here is why we feel that way...
After many months of soul searching we decided that we wanted to see if God would let us have a child of our own. So, a few months later, Michael had a vasectomy reversal. We did lots of research on this and knew that we had about a 50% chance of getting pregnant. His Doctor was hopeful and therefore we were too. We followed all the Doctor's orders and consider the reversal to have been a success. Unfortunately, we have not achieved a pregnancy and were left with a huge void in our hearts.
The whole process of his surgery and the time afterward caused a lot of emotional pain for us, for a long time we questioned ourselves and wondered why we couldn't have the family that we dreamed of. So many people around us were having families and we struggled with the pain that that caused.
Then, last fall we again started thinking about the little girls in China who need families. We realized that what we realled wanted was to be a family and that it wasn't necessary for us to become pregnant to do that. At that point everything came together and we knew that God was leading us to a child who is waiting for us in China.