Our Journey

It Starts......

         Hi, and welcome to my blog! My name is Justin, and we can start with a little backstory. Our journey began 6 1/2 years ago. Zach and I met randomly and have been best friends since. We have spent every moment by each others sides. We got engaged after a year of dating and were married March 19th, 2013 in Central Park, New York City. We have wanted to start a family for several years and have gone through several different possibilities: surrogacy, adoption, and foster care. Our journey is just beginning and I'll be blogging the whole time, giving updates and sharing my thoughts and feelings along the way. We are super excited to become a family.  Welcome to our journey!

         Today I scheduled a meeting with NECCO for a home meeting and we cannot be more excited. This is the first real step in the right direction. We will need to start classes and get a home-study done and then begin the long (or short!) wait for a child. We have spoken with the state agency to take these classes however they don't work around your schedule at all. They offer the classes on certain days and that's it. We had an issue with how they handled the classes as well. We signed up and then waited for the packet she said she would be sending. Weeks later we received a letter in the mail with few words which included the date of the classes which started the very next day. We had zero time to prepare or change work schedules. So at this point we felt that there were no other options for us but we continued to try other options. We have signed up for a profile on findsurrogatemother.com which was defeating. Many "helpful" women reach out to you and want to help however in our current financial situation we are unable to afford the $20 to $50 thousand dollar compensation fees these women are asking. We have also looked into private adoption agencies. These places also have very large fees. It's not that I'm cheap and don't think these children are worth paying the fees for; I would rather put the thousands of dollars towards giving our child the things they need as well as what they want. This blog is to document our journey in hopes of one day our child will read it and realize how much he/she was wanted. It is also intended for people who are going through the same situations and for people who have gone through the same situation who can shed light on this momentous journey. Thanks again and welcome to our Journey.