Prospective Adoptive Parents

*Kristen & Misty’s Open Adoption Journey: We are two women blogging about our journey in Open Adoption. Our ramblings include information on the paperworko, the process, the waiting, and even the occasional randomness about our lives.

bake one buy one: Between myself and my partner, S, we have two uteri and not a sperm to be found. We’ve started our journey to create our family.

*One More Cook: Loving family in NC hoping to adopt…

Jim and Amy Hoping to Adopt: Adoption is a journey filled with many highs and lows, twists and turns, and ups and downs. Come join me as I blog about our journey and share our thoughts about open adoption, enduring the wait, and our desire to become parents.

Waiting for Our Baby:We are a couple in our early 30′s living in the South. We are excited about our adoption journey and are eagerly waiting for our baby.

*Waiting!: I am blogging about my experience with adoption as a single mother.

Filling Our Castle: Join our journey as we start our adoption. Beginning to end documentation with NOTHING left out. Jenna has a habit of oversharing!

*Just me and my thoughts: Just my take on the journey of this thing called “life.” I will be doing a lot of blogging about my journey towards being a mom through adoption.

Parents to Be: Just Not Sure When: Our blog describes our journey through the adoption process, as well introduces who we are. This is our first time trying to adopt, so it is our first time with an open adoption. We are super excited!

Becca Blogs | Family. Friends. Future.: Main focus is on our marriage, foster adoption process, baking/cooking, and knitting patterns/projects. Recent focus was our DIY, low-budget wedding on October 10, 2010 in Las Vegas and our DIY reception on January 15, 2011 in Miami.

LivingLifeOutLoud: Domestic Open Adoption

Fearlessly Infertile: We’re a military family that is pursuing domestic infant adoption. We’re homestudy approved and less than a month away from going active with our agency.

Happy Adoption Story: We are a happy, fun-loving family of 3 hoping to soon be a family of 4! I am writing this blog to document our adoption journey from the very beginning, and also to get the word out about our adoption plans.

Seeking Fatherhood: Two wanna-be dads’ eye-opening, maddening, thrilling adventures in the foster care/adoption system in California.

Our New Normal: Our journey through preeclampsia, pregnancy loss and domestic adoption

Roztime: Inclusive fostering to open adoption (currently in the fostering stage), of 3 kids aged 2-8.

A Thing Called Hope: Our journey towards open adoption, struggles with infertility and loss, but most of all our hope that our dreams will come true.

Journey to Extend our Family: The chronicle of a young Canadian couple navigating their adoption journey.

An Infertile Blog: Started as an infertility blog but since we stopped trying a few months ago and have started the adoption process, that’s mostly what I’ll be writing about now.

The Ranunculus Adventures: One writer’s blog about life – the good, the bad, the awkward. Topics include everything from adoption to pop culture, writing to wedding flowers, recipes to faith, and stories to make you laugh and cry. And maybe pee your pants a little.

*Our Adoption Journey: This is our journey through the adoption process with plans for an open adoption. We became active on Friday, May 22, 2009. We continue to document our lives as we wait for “The Call”. *pregnancy mentioned*

*A Pea in Our Pod, Please: My husband and I always felt led to adopt children…we just assumed we would give birth first. God always has a plan! We tried for three years to get pregnant before we gave in to God and decided to adopt. We have been waiting for a baby since April of 2009.

*Baby Mac… Where are you?: This blog chronicles our journey from infertility to domestic infant adoption.

*karlinda: Vegan Brits living in the US, hoping to start our family soon through open adoption.

Making Our Family Complete: We are a family of four hoping to be a family of five in the future. We have started our journey to make our family complete through the domestic adoption of a baby girl.

Setters on Point: Our lives, hobbies, existences, just not much about the dogs.

*my thoughts through the journey of adoption: This blog is for the adopting explorers, my husband, my family, and mostly for myself.

Blogging For Adoption – Our Adoption Journey: Adoption has been on our hearts for several years now. After struggling with infertility, we have decided to begin the process of domestic infant adoption.

Our Adoption Journey: I wanted to document the process of becoming adoptive parents, as well hopefully becoming an advocate for open adoption.

*Texas Adoption – The Wait: My journey as I wait to do a domestic adoption in the great state of Texas!

*Somewhere Out There: We are a Florida family of 4 wishing, hoping and praying to complete our family through open adoption.

*Waiting for a Miracle: Our Adoption Journey: We are currently waiting for a match in our domestic adoption process. This blog chronicles our journey, from the beginning to the present.

*And Then There Were Five: Our Adoption Journey to becoming a five-some begins. We are flying by the seat of our pants, and loving it.

*Limbo Land: Confessions of a Wanna Be Mama

*my thoughts through the journey of adoption: I needed a way to share with my family our journey through ending infertility treatments and our excitement about adopting. It’s both informative for my family, friends, and followers as well as therapeutic for myself.

Thinking of a Clever Name: A Wannabe Craftier Stay at Home Mommy. Starting the adoption process – a Chronicle of Our Adoption Journey.

*Adventures in Adoption: Our Journey through Domestic Infant Adoption.

No Due Date: We’re on a journey to grow our family through adoption. We invite you to share in our journey, and help us in the search to find an expecting mother who is considering adoption.

Susan & Mitch (hope to) adopt: We’re following our dream to become parents by adopting a baby girl or boy through open adoption. Our blog shares adventures, experiences, and thoughts along the way.

Two Mommies Trying to Adopt:  I am hoping that this blog will act as a support for my partner and me as we try to navigate the road toward adoption. I will blog about the journey that we are taking and the emotions that occur along the way.

Finding Mercy: Ramblings of a stay at home mom to two little girls (one of whom has Celiac disease) about our lives as we pursue an open, domestic, trans-racial adoption and embrace race and culture in the city.

Scared to be Happy, Happy to be Scared: Wife/Husband team blogging about our adventure in open adoption through open ended letters to our future adopted child we’ve affectionately dubbed “Little One”.

Kent and Liz Adopting: Kent and Liz van Wagtendonk are from Mariposa County, California near Yosemite National Park, our blog details our journey to finding our future birthmother and life in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The Adoption Project: Follow along on our journey towards building our family through adoption.

My Two Journeys: This blog follows us through our adoption experience of adopting a sibling group from the Minnesota Waiting Children Program. At this point we are not sure what openness will look like, be it biological family members, foster parents, former foster siblings, ect but we look forward to encouraging these relationships with people that can answer questions our kids may have that we will not have the answers to.

Sweet Dreams are Made of This: My hubby & I are “wishin’ hopin’ thinkin’ prayin’ plannin’ and dreamin’” of becoming parents, through private/open adoption in Canada. I also write about everyday life and occasionally post recipes.

shypublicqueer: sharing a journey to parenthood by way of queer radical love

Em’s Adoption Blog: The crazy tale of Em and J, a married couple from the UK beginning the long and winding road to adoption.

A Peculiar Love: I’m making an attempt to blog through our adoption journey- from the moment we decided we wanted to adopt until we have little ones running through. We are meeting the mother of our first child for the first time tomorrow and hoping for an open relationship with her and the birth father.

Daniel and Christy: Waiting for the Miracle of Adoption: He’s a Librarian. She’s a Photographer. Likes: Art, Camping, and Cold Pizza. Dislikes: Shoveling Snow, Mosquito Bites, and Scratchy Blankets. Dream: To be parents to a sweet little one through open adoption someday soon!

Kim and Scott Adopting: My husband Scott and I are hoping to adopt a newborn through domestic open adoption. This blog is a way for us to share our lives and thoughts while waiting. Thanks for joining us on our journey.

Two Mums Two Kids: Our adoption journey from the beginning to…not sure yet. I’m one half of a young(ish!) female couple and wanted to document our journey. There have been a few twists and turns along the way, and no babies yet but we are approved now and “family finding”.

The Gollasch’s Adoption: Patrick and Ashley began as pen pals in 2006. They were married July 25th, 2008 and after a year apart they began trying to get pregnant. After over two years of trying through fertility treatments they both felt a strong calling towards adoption. This is our blog where everyone we love can follow us through the beautiful journey of adoption.

Keeping Faith: I am a 20-something woman, married to my high school sweetheart, working as a speech therapist in small-town America, stuggling with unexplained infertility and enjoying the journey of open adoption. This blog is a place that my husband and I will be using to keep our family and friends up-to-date about our journey to parenthood.

Babydusted: A detailed record of our family journey to enter into an open adoption in the Pacific Northwest.

Perfectly Paired: Erik & Suzy’s Journey through Adoption: A Minnesota couple hoping to adopt for the first time. Here we give a sneak peek into our lives and our hearts as we navigate our journey through adoption– finding friends along the way and, hopefully, those very special people that will pair perfectly with us and make our dreams of adoption a reality. Thank you for coming along with us on our journey!

Teach Fish to Swim: A snapshot from the lives of a happy couple in California looking to adopt, offering insight into our thoughts and happenings from the past year. Please contact us with questions.

The Littlest Brooks-Livingston: We’re hoping to adopt our first child through open adoption.

Holly and Heather Adopt: We are hoping to realize our dream of becoming parents through open adoption. This blog and our various social networking pages are vehicles to share our information far and wide in the hopes that a birthmother considering placing her baby for adoption will see us and love what she sees. It takes a village to raise a child. We know our ‘virtual’ village could actually help make us Moms!

Two Cats and a Cradle: Sharing our adoption journey as we experience it and hopefully answer some questions you might have about adoption. I’ll give it to you straight. The happy, the frustrating, the ups and downs and everything interesting in between. You may also get some cute kitty stories along the way. Who doesn’t like cute kitty stories?

Little Yellow Room: Follow the journey of Tim & Leslie as they recount & discuss open adoption, faith & infertility. Topics include failed placements, birthparent relations & raising awareness of this special type of relationship.

We are Until Forever: My husband and I are currently waiting to be matched in an open adoption of a domestic newborn. Our blog documents the adoption process from the start and discusses various resources we’ve found to learn more about adoption. We have a basic timeline of every event in our adoption and a collection of helpful links.

Grafting Our Family Tree: We are your average couple preparing our hearts and home for children. We have hit a couple bumps in the road and now are grafting our family’s red through adoption!

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