This rare mutation posed a great risk of being passed along to any biological children we would have, so we made the extremely hard decision to not have biological children of our own.

Like every major thing in life, everything is about God’s purposes and timing and learning to trust Him. As we’ve learned, almost everything in life worth doing or experiencing tends to take longer than you expected.

We were far better prepared to be adoptive parents having had gone through Snowflakes. 

Our first face-to-face visit was everything we hoped for and more! Our daughter and her genetic siblings bonded quickly and became instant friends. It was pure delight watching them laugh and play together. My husband and I also stepped into an immediate friendship with the genetic parents.

I was more than a little alarmed when I was contacted by Nightlight telling us that our cryo-tank containing our embryos had been detained at Customs. It was being held until the package could be thoroughly inspected! 

We waited. And waited. And waited in the domestic infant adoption program. When our home study had to be renewed we switched to embryo adoption.

We are in this together, I always tell my husband, and nobody fights a battle alone.

My mom sent me a link to the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.  Mitch and I had discussed sperm donation but did not feel like it was the right choice for us. Embryo adoption, however, was something totally new and different. We decided to explore the option and as we did, we had a strong feeling that this was how we were supposed to grow our family.

We have a wonderful relationship with our placing family and we truly feel that we were meant to be.

We had one remaining adopted embryo. We took time to grieve and pray. We were committed to all the embryos we adopted.