Our first big step is complete: Choosing an agency!

Yesterday afternoon and evening (1/11/17), my wife and I attended an 8 hour adoption agency orientation. They went over pretty much anything and everything you could imagine regarding domestic infant adoption. The timeline, the costs, the paperwork, matching couples with a birth mother, what you are open to, the support, classes, housing requirements, risks… it was a ton of information. We even got to hear from a panel to two adoptive families and a past birth mother. It was an emotional, exciting and amazing day.

We felt welcomed and completely supported by the people we interacted with at the agency. They were real people that have gone through adoption themselves. We know this is the agency that God is calling us to work with. So we took a leap of faith and signed up with them!

We chose to do domestic infant adoption because this will be our first child. We want to experience raising a child from the beginning and all that comes with it. We know that given our situation, we’ll most likely adopt again in the future and could see going the route of adopting older children through foster care.

The timeline to receiving a child is not a quick one. As the director of the agency said, “If it were up to me, I would send you all into the next room to pick out a baby to take home, but unfortunately that’s not how it works”. The longest part of the process, unfortunately, is the wait. On average, it takes 2 years of waiting after completing your application & home study to be chosen by a birth mother. It could be less, but nothing is certain. So we just wanted to let everyone know, we’re in it for the long haul! This isn’t just a couple month thing where we’ll sell some BUNT cards and be done. We want to strive to be as open with everyone as possible and continually update throughout our journey!

Now that we have chosen an agency, we have a fixed official cost and goal that we are working towards! Across all fees with the agency, it will cost a total $28,500 to adopt. Check out our new Funding Progress page for more details!

The first cost out of the $28,500 was paid last night, a $1,000 application fee. I’m excited to say that BUNT for Adoption contributed $156.55 to that payment!

THANK YOU for helping us pay 15.6% of that first cost!

I didn’t realize it until this morning, but it’s been exactly a month since we began BUNT for Adoption! I’ve said it before, but I’m continually blown away by the support and generosity of the BUNT community and others that I’ve connected with on Twitter. Thank you from both of us, it seriously means more to us than you could imagine!

A few stats over the 1st month of BUNT for Adoption (because I’m a stats guy):

$156.55 raised! 2 Direct Donations 10 eBay auctions completed 5 eBay BIN/OBO items sold

17 Card Donations : 16 from BUNT, 1 from HUDDLE 129 total cards donated!

: 16 from BUNT, 1 from HUDDLE 8 Giveaways Includes: 12 BUNT cards, 4 BUNT Loot packs and a physical 1966 Topps Willie Stargell

180 Twitter Followers & 153 Tweets Connected with 1 person who has adopted! Connected with 1 person who is currently adopting!



Thank you all again for a great first month! And THANK YOU for the continued support!