Caseworker

We have been assigned a caseworker! We have our intake interview on Monday and then we go from there. We are super excited!

Application In

So we have turned in our application for adoption. We are now waiting for the call saying that they have received our bishop's letter of recommendation. They will also tell us at that time who our caseworker is and then the process really begins. We are supper excited and anxious. We hope everything will go well. After we have been assigned a caseworker we will have to do a ten hour training in June in order to be eligible to adopt. Wish us luck.

Poem

Here is a poem that was published in the Ensign that meant a lot to me.

Just the Same

By Diana Lynn Lacey

Sometimes—
God sends rain
Straight from the sky
To nourish the young flower
and it grows.

Sometimes—
God sends rain from the sky
To the mountaintops,
Then over hills and through valleys
Until it reaches the flower
and it grows, just the same.

Sometimes—
God sends a child
Straight from His realm
Into a mother’s arms
and love grows.

Sometimes—
God sends a child
From heaven to another’s arms,
Then over hills and through valleys
Until he reaches the arms of his mother
and love grows, just the same.


We know that no matter where our child comes from we will love them no matter what.

Just Beginning

Our names are John and Cassy. We were married in the Manti, Utah temple on August 8, 2008. We have been attending school at BYU for the past couple of years. Cassy graduated in December of 2010 with a degree in elementary education and John will graduate with a degree in Theater Education in April of 2012. We have had a very happy marriage. We go on lots of vacations, money permitting, and we love every minute we spend together. Our recent vacation took us to Yellowstone National Park and we have a trip planned to California in July of this year. We both have a love for animals and strongly agree that we would like our children to grow up with a love of animals. Someday we hope to have a nice cozy home with children running around bringing joy to our lives.

This is what we had always wished for. We began to try to have children about 2 years ago. We went through one year with no luck and so we decided to see a doctor. We discovered that all was well with John, but that Cassy had several problems. We tried several rounds of Clomid, progesterone and Intrauterine Insemination. Nothing seemed to work and the time came to give fertility treatments a rest. As we prayed and fasted to know what we should do, we got valuable advice from the doctor and from a church magazine called the Ensign. We would like to include what the doctor said to us: "The Lord has children for you, but we just don't know how or when they will get here." He said this when we asked him what his thoughts were on adoption. We had been praying about adoption and if we should try it. This was one of the answers that we got. We feel very strongly that Heavenly Father has children for us, even if those children come from somewhere else. We are writing this blog to share our journey through the adoption process.