lately my husband and i have been having some really deep discussions about how we are going to live our life, what kind of people/parents we want to be. We have been trying to have a baby for some time now so babies/children have been talked about alot. We have also talked about adoption a lot. We had sorta talked about it when we were still dating but that was more some day in the future. Well the future is getting a lot closer now and the more we talk about it and research it the more we want to.
We don't want to adopt a baby so that makes things easier in a sence and we are interested in possibly taking(i know thats not the best word) siblings.
We also found out that adoption does not take years and years like everyone says the process from start to finsh is around one year. We met a lady that adopted 2 girls here in alberta and it took just under a year for the first one and only a week for the second.
We also found out that there are 5000 children in foster care in Alberta alone. Over 2000 of those children are available for adoption. I find that so scary and upsetting. We have no reason not to help do something other than our own selfishness. We are capable adults that want children to be a part of our lives, we even have the advantage that we are trained to work with children, know and understand what kind of "special needs" some of these kids have and we don't have a ton of our children.
We would like to try having our own first since parenting is a learning experence you don't intantly know what to do and I think we would be too unprepared without having been parents before. This is something we would like to do in the next few years though.
I went onto the Alberta child and family services a few weeks ago (this is what started all this) and I found adoption profiles online, I was curious so I started looking around, I found these cute 3 year old twin boys and I wanted to my hubby. He started to look around the site with me, we were reading the profiles and trying to guess their "coding"-special needs. Some of the profiles really upset my hubby, there was nothing wrong with these kids they just wanted a family and for some reason they couldn't be with their real parents. Its all rather depressing. So ya that website is what strated us talking about it and wanting to do something. Then this past weekend we went to the "spring trade show" here in whitecourt and there was a table/booth about foster care and adoption. The lady spent a lot of time talking to us and since we work in the school system we have a better chance of being approved. So ya it was almost like God is trying to tell us something by leading on us on this path....it is a lot to think about....