How we got here - Part 1

In October 2006, Russ and I embarked on the road to adoption. We wanted to start a family, but having biological children was not in the cards for us. Although our paths wouldn't cross until later, a woman in Georgia became pregnant just a month after we completed the first round of paperwork.

As our home study process crawled along with more paperwork, background checks, medical exams, interviews, and home visits by the adoption agency's caseworker, our birth mother was enduring her own struggles.

At the end of January, when our home study was completed, we posted a family profile on an adoption website. Over the next several weeks, a number of women contacted us. Some had not yet decided if adoption was the right choice for them, some weren't sure we were the right family for their babies, a few we decided would not be a good match for us.

Near the end of February, a woman contacted us and told us she was carrying twins, due in mid-August, and thought we would be wonderful parents for them. We talked on the phone, and a few weeks later travelled to meet her in person. She told us she was certain that she wanted us to be her babies' parents, and the legal process began through our adoption agency in Florida.