Why Adopt before we have a child naturally?

I have had a lot of people ask me why Brandon and we want to adopt a child before we have one of our own naturally.

This is something that Brandon and I talked a lot about when first thinking about adopting. We consulted a lot of books and advice from people about "child birth order" and how it would effect out children if we were to adopt first, or if we were to have a child first.

After all is said and done, Brandon and I know that we are "called" to adopt. I do think that adoption is not for everyone, and it is a calling. We feel very passionate about adopting. We feel that by choosing to adopt first, we are giving a gift to our little adopted daughter that no one else has given her. We are CHOOSING her. We are choosing her FIRST. Through some circumstances, so many of these abandoned children have never been chosen for anything other than death. We choose to give our little daughter LIFE and a family and love and joy. We pray for her every day, even though at this point we do not know who she is. (We know God has a plan)

So... enough about that for now... just wanted to share our passion... share our reason for doin what we are doin...