Start Here: Our Journey :)

Welcome Family and Friends to our
Norick Family Adoption site!

     Each above tab has information to help give insight to our adoptive Journey and bringing Malakai home where he found love and healing as well as the journey towards adding to our family through the blessing of adoption once again!

    On the Home page I post updates as they come along.

We are honored to have you part of our faith and family journey! 🙂

 

Thank you so much for your care and interest in our adoption journey!

 

     We would like to share a little about our journey: We were married in 2005 and both knew deep within our hearts that we were meant to be open to life through adoption and biologically.

     We were blessed with the life of our first daughter, Cherubim, for only a short while and she was called back to our heavenly father while still in utero.
     We knew that God was a faithful God and trusted in his plan for our family. We soon became pregnant again and were able to keep the pregnancy of our son, Elijah John, January 28th, 2006. A little over a year and a half later, we were blessed with another daughter, Becki Marie, May 2nd, 2007.
     After Becki’s pregnancy, God asked us to trust in him as he orchestrated with his love, a chance for 5 more little lives to have a straight pass to heaven after only 8-17 weeks of being with us. This was a time that nearly broke us to our core as we laid to rest, 2 sons, Innocent and Nazareth, and 3 daughters, Seraphim, Patience and May, but God was faithful and filled us with the grace to not just go on, but also grow a steadfast bond in our marriage that solidified our vows and made our love stronger in the long run.

     We always knew that God had written the story of adoption in our hearts for our family and so we took this time of healing to start the journey towards life and love through the adoption process.
     We were home-study ready by December of 2008 and very excited for our journey. We had been waiting for a couple years when God blessed us with our son, Isaiah, February 13th, 2010; no surprise to us that God would show his love to us by blessing us with a son the Eve of Valentine’s Day. God is amazing.
     We found out that Kara had hypothyroidism and that she wasn’t producing any progesterone. Kara was supplemented through Isaiah’s pregnancy and gave thanks for the life he allowed us as we continued our journey of adoption.
     A little over a year, we were greatly blessed once more with the life of another miracle child and after a faith gripping pregnancy and delivery, Nevaeh Grace, was born to us by Heaven’s Grace, June 22, 2011, and we were so thankful that God was faithful and brought both Nevaeh and Kara through the pregnancy and delivery safely.
     Kara ended up with an emergency hysterectomy after her delivery and although it was something that we truly mourned, being that Kara was only 28 and Tim only 33 at the time, it also gave a sense of peace and purpose; We knew that it was then that God was calling us to turn our full sights on adoption.
     Through this whole process, God keeps revealing the words, “Trust in my Divine Providence.”  In the time between then and now we have had a failed domestic adoption that was very hard on our family but in hindsight was best for all.
     God began speaking to our hearts about international adoption back in 2012 and increasingly became more prominent as the time went on.        First, we were thinking about Guatemala, but the borders were closed.
     For the next year, God kept asking us to help his orphans of the waiting program in China. God was calling us loudly to go across the ocean and world, away from our children, during the time of the disappearance of the Malaysian airlines.  With those thoughts and the thought of the extra cost of an international adoption on top of keeping our domestic adoption process going was too scary to bear and we said, “NO.”
     Well, if you have ever tried to say, “NO,” to God, you will have found out that it doesn’t go over very well. lol
   God kept gently calling us in our hearts, “Trust in my Divine Providence.”  Finally, during church we heard a reading from Malachai. Tim felt it in his heart that if we were to have another son, that we would name him, Malachai.  We both felt something; Something pulling us to his will.  We had a friend who has adopted from the waiting children’s program and she and her husband came over to dinner to answer questions that we had.
     After some time of discernment and awareness, we felt the call to the little boys with special needs who seem to go unnoticed. We knew that we were meant to follow God’s will and that the call was only going to grow louder in our soul.  We had to just…TRUST IN GOD’S DIVINE PROVIDENCE…. go figure. 😉
     As we went through the process, God revealed to Kara in prayer that we indeed had a son waiting for us in China….a son named, Malakai ‘Kai’ (Kai means victory in Chinese.)  Suddenly we thought back to that reading that had touched our hearts and knew that it was no coincidence and it made us trust that God would provide.
      

     We have been a family for over a year now and we can not thank you all enough for the love and support we have felt a long the way.
Feel free to read about Malakai’s 1st year home by our month by month posts on the HOME page or follow this link: WE MADE IT! A year! 12 months! I’d do it all again in a heartbeat! to read about Malakai’s 1st Gotcha day! 🙂 

Malakai has been asking for a baby and to be a big brother for a long time now and after much prayer and discernment, we feel the time is right! We know that God will provide, and we have full faith that it will be in part by the love and generosity of those whom also have a heart for God’s children as well as those who care for us and lift us up.  We will forever be grateful for any and all the help we can receive so that we will be able to follow God’s will fully in giving a home and love to a child for their entire lives, no matter their struggles, both domestically and internationally, while still being able to provide for the four biological children whom God has blessed us with and whom rely on us to date.  

“We are his hands and feet”

Thank you again for your care and support.

God bless,
The Norick Family

P.S. ~  To find out more as to how you can help, please visit our, “Praying to Adopt in 2017!” post.

 

 Thank you all again and God bless!