Friday, March 1, 2013

Rebellion?


Has rebellion ever led somebody to adoption?  Just curious cause yesterday... 
     Well I hate how everyone looks at adoption as a last resort.  They keep it on the back burner as "well there's always adoption", and that frustrates me.  Part of me wants to adopt just to spite those people. 
     Yesterday I was telling one of Blakely's therapist about my blogger friend who's raising funds for adoption.  And amongst the conversation I said that it's giving me ideas for when we start raising funds.  And you know what she told me?  I got the comment about how young we are.  Ya know, about how we still have time to have our own.  I almost snapped... oops.  I told her that we could adopt now and have a kid when we've been married for 10 years.  And she was like, yeah that's true.  And then she tries telling me to consider fostering. 
     Why is it when I bring up adoption people usually tell me things like:
  1. Have you and Jared been tested to see why you haven't had any?
  2. You're so young... just be patient... it'll happen...
  3. Have you considered fostering?
It frustrates me that no one wants to encourage adoption.  I mean if we did start raising funds for adoption and all that, I think everyone would support us.  But just talking about it...  I don't get it. 
  1. Jared hasn't had any testing done.  All I've had done is blood tests, all of which came back normal.  I truly feel in my gut that we would go through all the testing and be told they have no idea why we haven't conceived.  So I suppose it's hard to feel motivated to spend money on testing when I feel it wouldn't do any good.
  2. Yes we're young!  I know that!  And do you see how many teenagers get pregnant?  We've been married over 4 years and nothing has happened.  Who's to say anything ever will?  Those people who had a surprise kid after 15 years of marriage, they were young once too.  Sure I might still have a kid of my own later...  But what if God doesn't give me one until I'm 39 like he did my aunt?  I could raise an adopted child in the mean time.  I want kids while I'm young.  While. I'm. Young.  Is that so hard to fathom?
  3. Far as being foster parents... I feel Jared and I are too young to be foster parents.  Half of the people we meet think we're 16 still.  I just don't feel we'd get much respect from children at our age.  Maybe we'll foster when we're older.  Oh and another thing about fostering....  I want a child who stays my child!!!  I'm used to being a substitute mom, but that's not what I want to be forever.

Anyways....  yeah...