Welcome to The Laslink!
My husband & I originally created this site specifically with close family and friends in mind so they could feel a link to our lives wherever we might be.
After nearly 3 years of keeping this blog private to members only, for various reasons, I’ve decided to revamp things a bit & make the site public.
For those of you who don’t already know me. I am a 29 year old proud military wife & mother to two beautiful little girls through the blessing of adoption. I am also Canadian, born & raised (in beautiful British Columbia!) but am currently a permanent resident of the good ol’ US of A. I love both of these beautiful countries equally.
My husband Roy & I were married May 26th of 2004. After 3 years of infertility we began our adoption journey in 2007 through the process of fostering while we were stationed in California.
For our daughter Brooklynn, it was a fairly short (15 month) journey to the finalization of her adoption but for our daughter Alanna, it was the wildest roller coaster we’d ever been on, which lasted just over 3 years… her adoption was finally finalized on May 3rd, 2010!
Because foster parenting & adoption have played such a huge role in our married life it is something I have frequently blogged about. Our adoption journey via foster care in the State of California fills up a large portion of the archives.
Another recent journey I have been on & something I often discuss is my weight loss from a decision to undergo Roux-N-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery back in October 2009. I also like to include some favorite recipes on my “Favorite Food Friday” posts.
Currently we are active with a national agency & waiting to be matched with a birth mother so that we can adopt once again, but privately, here within the US. We did attempt a brief pursuit to try fertility intervention to try & conceive, however that road lead us to an abrupt dead end & rerouted us right back to adoption. We’re ok with that!
Occasionally my husband Roy even adds his own posts here which is a special little treat from time to time & the rest of my postings are typically the comings & goings of our days as experienced by “The Laslink”.
We’re not the best writers out there by any means but we enjoy it non the less & hope that you will too whether it be because you share similar experiences, journeys, or interests. Maybe it’s foster care, adoption, fertility issues, trying to conceive, weight loss, gastric bypass, being a military spouse or just because our lives are of curiosity to you. It’s certainly a pleasure to have you here & we hope you will return often!
