Welcome!

This blog is to record the adoption process for the Miller family of Champaign, Illinois. We are currently a family of five, and looking to add more. I'm Doug, an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My wife, Chrissy, is a fourth-grade teacher at Robeson Elementary in Champaign. My three sons are Andrew, Aaron, and Alex. But that's just for now...

In July, 2009, we all went to the Hogar de Esperanza ("Home of Hope") near Trujillo, Peru. After returning, we began to discuss the possibility of adopting one or more of the wonderful children we had met at this orphanage. Our family had discussed adoption before, but always thinking about infants. We had gotten too old to add a baby, but seeing older children in need of a home made us recognize that we could still adopt.

It's now July, 2010, and we have completed all the pre-adoption training and paperwork. Our dossier is due to be shipped off to Peru this week. Tonight at one of our family meetings about adoption, we discussed the possibility of this blog to help other families who are interested in adoption, and for our friends and family to follow our progress over the next few months.

We will write a few posts to explain why we chose to adopt, the process, and decisions that we made along the way. Then, when we get a placement, we won't be able to share much detail about our newest child(ren) for a while, but we will update travel plans and progress. After the adoption is complete, we'll post a few pictures and that will be the end of the blogging. Then, if you want to continue to stay in touch via email or Facebook, please contact me.

You are welcome to become a follower of the blog so you can post comments. Thank you for your interest in our family!