Our Adoption Story

Hello friends and family and maybe even a few acquaintances,

Many of you know that we are in the process of adopting a baby. We started this process officially back in the Fall and made the decision to pursue private domestic infant adoption in the winter of 2022. It’s been a process to say the least. Part of my original plan was to share our journey with those we love and maybe even those of you who would say you are interested in adopting in the future. I waited quite a while to get started because A) this adoption process is no joke and took up a ton of our free time. B) I didn’t feel ready to share parts of our journey quite yet and wanted to be wise in how I shared our adoption story.

A week or two ago though I started thinking through different things I wanted to share with people. We have the best friends, coworkers, family, even people we just have met, who have been so curious and excited about this process for us. I’ve realized as I’ve answered questions and explained this process time and time again that there are a lot of questions and misconceptions around domestic infant adoption. My hope with this blog is that not only through our individual conversations with people but through my writing that some of those questions and misconceptions could be clarified. The second reason I did it is because my mom told me to earlier this week because she wanted to see me writing again and she felt like I needed to share this story (and I’ve learned over 31 years my mom’s advice is right about 99% of the time).

So here I am, here you are.

I do want to advise we are not the consummate experts regarding private domestic adoption in Texas or the U.S. What I’d like to do though is to share what we have learned over the past year and a half as we have done our homework, learned from our incredible agency and been a part of the most amazing foster/adoptive support group through our church.

To my future baby who is currently (most likely) growing in their bio momma’s belly right now, I wanted to create this for you too. That one day, if you need to put together a bit more of the pieces of your story, if you want to hear more of the behind the scenes details of your adoptive family waiting on you and preparing for you, I can send you here. Here you can read my thoughts and hopefully know what we’ve known all along. You, my love, are wanted more than you can imagine! We’d do all the paperwork in the world, spend every last bit of our savings and then some, go through months and months of waiting and hoping just to make you a part of our family. We love you and we are on the edge of our seats here in the Bass family waiting to meet you.

So I’ll be here writing for the next little while, backtracking through the past almost year or two of this process for us. If you are reading this, thanks for coming along on our journey. If you’d like to support us in other ways, there’s a page called “Adoption Support” that explains more how you can do this.

Thanks for coming along,

Molly