My husband, Tommy, and I were married in 1999. We were both 29 years old. We had season tickets to LSU football and baseball games. We went to every home game and several away games. We decided we would wait one year then get pregnant. We planned the month we would conceive and the month between seasons we would birth our first child. Neither happened. Days turned into months and months turned into years, and we eventually sought fertility treatments. Through the years of infertility, I … [Read more...]
An Adoption Consultant’s Adoption Experience
We had so many adoption experts participate in our Adoption Perspectives Conference in November who shared valuable information and resources for couples considering adoption, parents of adopted children, and people working to support birth mothers. Katie Manuel was at the conference and shared with us some of the wisdom she has gathered about the adoption process through her own two adoptions, and through her work with Christian Adoption Consultants. We had a chance to speak with her to get … [Read more...]