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One of the steps I most looked forward to from the beginning of our adoption journey was creating our adoption book. It's the book that is presented to expectant mothers & parents when you are being matched. I just love storytelling so I was really excited to get started on what I knew would be … Continue reading Creating Our Adoption Profile Book – A Review of Mixbook and Shutterfly
A guest blog by my friend, Robin Arnott. Robin and I met when our husbands attended the University of Waterloo together and bonded instantly over her dog, Mortimer. We've remained friends ever since, supporting each other in the ups, and downs of dating, marriage, parenthood and infertility. Our house in Toronto was listed on a … Continue reading Finding quality, affordable child care is harder buying a house in a new city
We decided in February of 2019 that we were ready to tip toe into the land of adoption knowing absolutely nothing but having an amazing resource in an old coworker's friend who works at CAS and in private adoption. I gave her a call and after a short chat knew exactly where we were headed. … Continue reading Adoption In Ontario – Our Path to Parenthood
So our last update was that we decided to pursue private infant adoption. And I'm sure you thought, "okay, now what?" Us too! We really had no idea what laid ahead for us beyond our decision. Since then we've gotten some answers and some timelines as well as decisions that we'll need to make. Homestudy … Continue reading Here We(e) G(r)o(w)
In so many areas of my life, change has occurred when I've found the bottom of my sanity, patience, coping skills, etc. And yet, it's not something that's celebrated at all. Fear is something that post people run away from, not forward into. And yet, that's what changes us. When we started on this journey … Continue reading Change Is Found When You Hit the Bottom
We did our marriage prep through my husband, Luke's home church that he grew up in. We really had no ideas or expectations of what it would be like when we signed up but we have referenced it and shared from those sessions so many times in the last 4 years that I think it's … Continue reading Paths to Parenthood – How We Ended Up Here
After we miscarried at the end of 2017, I was feeling like I needed some space and time away from the trauma of the last few years. I felt like we weren't getting any closer to our goal, and that perhaps we were, infact getting farther away from it. I was angry, I was sad … Continue reading When the Stork Doesn’t Come – Year 3
We're about two months out from the 4 year anniversary of our journey to become parents. It's somehow believable and unbelievable that all that time has passed. We've packed so many adventures into our lives in the past 4 years and we're so fortunate to have been afforded the time to do so. We've been … Continue reading When The Stork Doesn’t Come – Year 2.5
As you might imagine, fertility testing isn't just one test to determine how things are going on the inside. It's an extensive list of tests that add up to a sometimes fuzzy picture of what's going on. In our experience, we got a lot of feedback but not a lot of answers that were a … Continue reading When the Stork Doesn’t Come – Year 2
As I sit down to write this, I have our adoption paperwork sitting beside me. With my portion of it half filled out and a date in my mind for when Luke and I will decide which options that were presented to us are the one (or ones) we want to pursue. I tell you … Continue reading When the Stork Doesn’t Come – Year 1
Anna Aldred 