Family Friday

This week we would like to introduce to you Paul and Kim.  This couple are in the waiting stage of the adoption process and are home study approved to adopt up to 3 children from newborn to the age of 3.  Paul and Kim have been married for 12 years but have know each other since they were teenagers.  They love to travel all over the world and experience new things.  When they are not traveling to places like France, Italy, Germany and England they love spending time outdoors hiking, and exploring nature.  Paul loves to make homemade pickles and Kim loves to knit and their favorite holiday is Halloween.  Paul and Kim have also been parents to several exchange students over the years and enjoy a close relationship with the students still today.  
I have to admit the description of their home makes me want to ask them to adopt me.  But all joking aside it is a place a child would be able to make great memories and enjoy growing up at.
I was able to have briefly talk with Paul and Kim to get to know them a little better.   
What made you choose adoption? Kim has known since she was about 16 that she would probably have problems having biological kids due to both genetics as well as a medical issue. After we had been dating a few years, naturally we discussed our future and the idea of kids. Paul loved the idea of adopting too and after we were married, we started doing a lot of research into it had thoroughly embraced the idea of raising a child through adoption.
How long have you been waiting to adopt? That's hard to answer. We've been looking into it for several years, researching, reading books, attending seminars, deciding what path was best for us. We eventually settled on domestic newborn and finished our home study for that in January 2014. So, "officially" we've been waiting a year. Un-officially, quite some time.
Will you renew your paper work after it expires this year? Again, a hard question. We hope and pray that we won't have to because we have adopted before that point. If we haven't, we still would definitely love to have kids in our life to raise. After our paperwork expires, we might choose another path...maybe foster-adopt...maybe international. A lot can happen in a year.
Are you with an agency? Yes, we are currently with an agency, but also have some connections with lawyers, if an expectant mom prefers to not go through an agency. Our home study does not lock us to a specific agency, so it's pretty flexible.

If you would like to get to know Paul and Kim better, speak with them or just offer support you can find them at the link below.
http://paulandkimadopt.weebly.com/

We at What to Expect Adoption Support want to wish Paul and Kim the best of luck in their journey and can't wait to see how it ends for them.