The Adoption Report: Are You Being Called?

Matthew 18:5

Help Us Give Another Child A Family!

We are adopting again! The need in Ethiopia is so great. There are so many children who need families...and we're a family that is called to have more children, so it is a perfect fit! :)

We couldn't have brought home our other two children without the generous help of others. And we need help again.

There are FOUR ways you, dear reader, can help:

1. Please pray for us as we work to get the proverbial ball rolling, and pray for our future child, for his/her health and safety.

2. CLICK to visit our Etsy Shop to buy a Pound Cake(100% of proceeds go to our adoption fund). Thank you for helping us change the life of a child...one cake at a time!

3. Buy FAIR TRADE Coffee here. ($5 of each bag bought at that site goes towards our adoption fund.)

4. And of course you can always just donate to our fund by clicking on the DONATE button above.

Thank you for any help you can give us!

Family Stats

1994(?) - Adam and Kathryn meet. (We were in middle school).

July 29, 1998 - We go on our first date. It is the awesomely bad movie, Armageddon. We are 16 years old.

July 3, 2004 - We enter the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and move to St. Louis.

Spring of 2005 - We move to Steubenville, OH for a brief stint in graduate school. Just prior to this we began using our NFP skills to achieve pregnancy. Oh, what an innocent time!

Summer of 2005 - Move back to our hometown in Michigan where Adam teaches and Kathryn workes as a youth minister.

Summer of 2006 - Move briefly to Eastern Wisconsin. This is when we started looking into Napro Technology to address of fertility issues, but God had other plans for us at that time.

Later that summer - Move to Western Wisconsin to live and work in the Holy Cross Seminary House of Formation, a place for high school boys to live and discern a call to the priesthood. This puts our fertility treatments on hold, and we start to feel the call to adopt.

March 2007 - We decide to adopt from Ethiopia. Though we intended to adopt an infant we feel drawn to a 2 year old on a waiting list. We accept her as our referral and start in on the mounds of paperwork.

January 4th, 2008 - Redi.et is officially our little girl! We give her the middle names Mary Elizabeth.

MLK Jr. Day 2008 - We leave for Ethiopia to bring Redi.et home. We arrive back to the good ole US of A on Feb. 1st.

April 2008 - We decide to adopt again, though domestically this time. Start the paperowork.

July 2008 - Start working with A Chosen Child Adoption agency and recieve a match with a birthmother.

July 29th 2008 - The baby is born, but the birthmother decides to parent him. Our failed adoption.

September 21st 2008 - We are matched with a newborn baby boy!

September 22nd 2008 - Redi.et and Kathryn fly to Florida to pick up Maximilian K.olbe (K.olbe for short) from the hospital. He is two days old.

January 2009 - While waiting to start the NaPro bloodwork we find out we're expecting!

February 23, 2009 - Miscarry the baby at 6 weeks.

September/October 2009 - Finally get the Napro Bloodwork Panel done.

The Adoption Report

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Are You Being Called?

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