Our Tenth Year-Marriage

Marriage-It’s an interesting concept really. Two people miraculously find one another, and then decide they like one another enough to form a relationship. They date for sometimes several weeks, months or even years, and then decide to get married. They plan a life together; a life full of hopes and dreams, and mysteries and memories. They have bright eyed enthusiasm about the future, and are ready and waiting with open arms to see what life will offer them. They are aware that there may be thorns along the way of the rosy path, though hope it only stings for a second.

When Bret and I were married ten years ago, we met our future with that excitement, and the day we said “Yes” was one of the happiest days of our lives. We have had many cherished memories over the last ten years. We truly are the best of friends. We know one another, and each other’s likes and dislikes, and understand that we are each individuals, but truly love being one another’s other half.

We have made so many different memories in the last ten years, and will cherish each and every one of them, and are excited to see what next ten years, and the many years after that, hold for us as the Haney family will continue to grow. In the last ten years of our marriage, one of our struggles was the desire to have children. We have both longed to be parents, and it was our fervent belief that when the time was right, we would be blessed with the children that we have hoped and prayed for.

We believe that now, the time is right.

Our family will be growing, hopefully very soon. We have chosen to adopt, to create our forever family.

In January, we started the process to learn about the agency that we had chosen. We are working with an agency that a friend recommended, and we couldn’t be happier. We took our classes and completed A LOT of paperwork. We were fingerprinted, background checked and blood sampled, and then we had to ask for some people to say nice things about us. We were interviewed several times, and they found out we are wonderful people; we look fantastic on paper.

Once all was said and done, our home study was complete in June, and now we are waiting for that phone call to tell us they have found our children. We said we are willing to take up to three children, up to age four. We know that some might think we are crazy, but we are up for the challenge as we have been preparing to have these children for many years.

We are anxiously awaiting that phone call for our children that are being fervently prayed for by friends and family who have been amazingly supportive along our journey to become parents. The hardest part of this journey now, is the waiting. We are aware that many are awaiting the arrival of our children, just as we are to know the arrival date. At this point, we are “parents to be”, we just don’t know the due date. We will be yelling from the rooftop in jubilation when they arrive, so just listen out for shouts of happiness around our neighborhood, hopefully sometime before the end of the year. We knew on that day ten years ago when we said yes, we desperately wanted to be parents, although it may not be the way we had planned. We know that our hopes and dreams will be fulfilled all in time.

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Today, to honor the wonderful Dad that Bret will be; he is getting a bib, and some cute books-One from one of the funniest dads around.

We had to let our first baby try on the bib, again, she lets me do this.