Why Adoption?

Why adoption? Great question!

It seems to me as though adoption has and was always meant to be a part of my life.

It is interwoven through my family; my paternal grandfather and 2 of my cousins are adopted. My grandfather was the first person to talk to me about it in a way that tied it back to how we are all adopted by our heavenly Father. My Grandfather explained and views his adoption with such amazing perspective that was not lost on me. Adoption just made since to me, even at a young age.

In 7th grade I went to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert with my friends. (Yes, I was the middle-schooler at the SCC concert rather than N'sync, trust me, if I would have had the opportunity to see N'sync I would have, talk about childhood regrets!) SCC's "cause" was adoption. They had just adopted their first daughter from China and he shared the story and heart behind it and sang his song, When Love takes you in, and my heart was broken. I went home and told my parents they needed to adopt a little girl from China. They said no, and I dropped it, knowing from that moment on, that I would adopt one day.

(May I just say that years later my dad sat Aubrey and I (at this point still just dating) down and made us watch a video about a family adopting a little girl from China, and told us, a little teary-eyed, that we had to do this one day, because they were too old now. I made sure to bring up the previous conversation from middle school in a nice humble way saying they should have listened to me then!)

I honestly don't even remember having a defining 'conversation' with Aubrey about adoption. It almost seems like it was just assumed from both of us that we would one day. So many of the 'big' conversations that many couples have happened this way for us. In this moment, especially, I am so thankful to God for giving us passions that align so well together.

So, for me, adoption was never really a question. I felt from young age that it was something God was calling me to do.

Here We Go!

Welcome! Welcome to our blog, and welcome to the beginning of our family's story!

We are so excited to begin this journey of “Becoming the Hogans”, and we're excited to have you join us! We'll try to post often, and quickly as things move forward. If you would like to get an email notification when we have posted an update, sign up in the box on the right. Whenever we have updates, we'll also post on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

For now, here are the basics…

WHO: Aubrey and Mollie Hogan. (check out the About Us tab for more info)

WHAT: We have chosen to start our family through adoption!

HOW: We are adopting through Foster Care!

WHEN: Paperwork will be started in early Spring 2014

WHY:  More on this to come…

We want this blog to be a place where you can see where we are in the process, and stay up to date with us on this incredible journey. We know you probably have questions, and we want to answer them as best we can, believe me, we still have questions too!

This past summer, Aubrey and I came to the decision that adopting through foster care was God’s route for us in starting our family.  I started this blog as we began processing what all this would mean. I’m excited to share the posts with you as we walk through these next several months together! 

Although we haven’t begun the process in an “official” sense, through paperwork filed in the system, this process has begun for us in every other way….so this blog is officially kicked off!

Here we go!!