Adoption is a beautiful thing, but it can also be an overwhelming undertaking.
Imagine planning to adopt one, maybe two children, and then being asked to take in even more? It’s a huge gift but still, overwhelming is an understatement. This family handled it with grace.
“When my husband Cody and I met, we always knew adoption was in our hearts,” Natalie Jordan told Love What Matters.
“When we began to plan our family, we quickly found out in order to get pregnant we would need to do IVF. We felt the best thing for us to start our family was to get in touch with a local foster agency and get approved to be resource parents. It took us nine months to get our house licensed and take the classes to become a licensed resource home,” she added.
Finally, a long-awaited match.
Natalie continued: “December of 2018, we were so excited as we waited for the call to be matched. I knew the most important parts of fostering children is not only filling them up with love and giving them safety, but reunification.”
Their family members were a bit concerned though. They expressed to the couple that the children might go back but the brave husband and wife said that they would have to be okay with it. This was already such a delicate process so they knew what they were in for. They just wanted to give their love to a child.
A small twist, though…
“On February 6, 2019, I received a call around 10 a.m. It was our foster agency, sharing they needed three siblings to find their adoption parents and have been in foster care for 15 months,” Natalie said.
“Since they were looking for an adoption placement it meant it was highly likely we were the family who would be theirs forever. I called Cody to share the news, their ages, and to ask if he was ready to be a dad of three.”
Cody’s response? Let’s do it.
The two were both on the same page and more than excited to take on not one, not two, but three amazing children in need of a safe home.
The couple FaceTimed their family and everyone cried tears of joy. Some friends came over to help the couple prepare for the three kids. They even had the support of their entire village. “Without the support of a village it would have been hard for us, but we knew with it we could take on the world,” Natalie said.
So it was final and the new parents met their children just two days after the call: Michael (4-years-old), Mackenzie (4-years-old) and Melli (1-year-old).
Natalie went on to share that as soon as they walked into the room and she met them, she had a familiar feeling.
“They moved in on February 11, 2019, and our hearts were full. The date of them moving in was very special to us because it was the birthday of my mother-in-law who passed away in 2015; we felt it was a sign,” said Natalie.
If we’re being honest, the children were scared and they wanted the mother they knew (only to be expected). So Natalie and Cody did everything they could to make them feel at home, including sleeping in the family room and watching movies together every night for the first few nights.
Then the plot thickens, and Natalie and Cody are met with an incredible surprise phone call.
The call was the news that the three children’s biological sibling was born, and also needed to be taken in. They were presented with the opportunity to keep all four siblings together and of course, so lovingly, they obliged with no questions asked.
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