Research and more research is what consumed my days off. What I found was there are a TON of options but it depended on what you were looking for. We ad already decided that a domestic adoption is what we wanted so that helped eliminate some options. The next thing we decided on was that we wanted a new born , so that knocked out more options. As a result this left us with a few options. After reading about each option we were stuck on 2 places. I spoke with a social worker with Lifeline and really liked her. The only issue we had was the possible 4 year waiting list. 4 years is a long time for us at the age of 37. Did I want to wait that long and just start my family at 41? The other place we found was The Independent Adoption Center with an office in Tucker Georgia. I remembered a friend from high school had gone down this road so we decided to contact him. They used the IAC in tucker and loved them. After a lot of conversation we decided that we would chose between these 2 options. We attended a free information seminar in the fall of 2014. At this seminar we learned abut their agency , the process of adopting, and the average wait times.  Let me tell you after all this information was thrown at me I couldn't think straight. We had to take several days to process all the information and we wanted to get the opinion of two very important people in our lives, my parents. Let me take a minute and say how thankful we are to have my parents and brother. The love, support, and encouragement they have given us is unbelievable and we can never thank them enough. I am so thankful to have their support because we have met others along the way that didn't have the same kind of support from their families. Even though my parents were very confused about this process and open adoption they were willing to learn and never stopped supporting us.
Ok, so now back to our decision. After much deliberation we chose IAC in Georgia for many reasons.  Our reasons were not only financial, but they only do newborn adoptions and also the wait time average was shorter. We contacted them and signed up for a 2 day education/ information seminar . Little did we know that the REAL work was about to begin.