After praying with her husband, Stephanie Forbes knew international adoption was the path she was meant to take.
“My husband and I prayed, and we kept coming back to adopting from Latin America,” Forbes said. “And that was when we settled on Guatemala.”
She and her husband considered domestic adoptions, but never found peace with it. After speaking with All God’s Children, they knew international adoption was the right choice.
“We finally decided on getting two boys,” Forbes said.
Then they began the process.
Forbes, who is an academic adviser for Ohio State’s Continuing Education program, began her paperwork last May and completed it in August.
After their dossier was complete, the couple’s name went on a waiting list.
The couple’s two boys were born 10 weeks apart in November and December 2002.
The couple is in the process of waiting for the Guatemalan courts to give their final approval, then the birth mothers can officially sign off on the adoptions and new birth certificates may be ordered.
Until then, Forbes and her husband anxiously await their trip to Guatemala to pick up Branden Anderson and Ryan Esteban and bring them home for good.
