Jeremy, Lindsay, Paris and Kian's Adoption Story

We always wanted our daughter, Paris, to have a sibling. With every passing year it seemed more and more unlikely. On top of unexplained infertility, we had numerous military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan to contend with. For a while we gave up and told ourselves, each other and everyone we knew that we were content with one child. Deep down we both knew that wasn’t true. After all, 15 years from now, who would come home for Christmas if our daughter couldn’t?

After our last round of failed fertility treatment, we decided it was time to go forward with our plans to adopt. I made the first phone call in June of 2009. We zipped through the Home Study process because in September, Jeremy was deploying to Afghanistan for 12 months. We became active with American Adoptions in October, 2009.

With Paris in school and Jeremy deployed, I found myself tapping my finger waiting for the phone to ring. So I decided to substitute teach in the schools on Ft. Bragg to keep myself busy. It was fabulous working with all of the kids from different backgrounds. At this point we were pretty sure a birth mother wouldn’t choose us while Jeremy was deployed to a war zone. So we went on with our daily life, counting down the days until the end of this deployment when we would have a chance at getting chosen by a birth mother.