Adoption is near and dear to my heart. When I was a little girl playing with dolls, I had babies that I "gave birth to" and others that I would pretend I adopted. It seems God was speaking to me and softening my heart toward adoption even as a child. Three of my friends growing up were adopted, (I'm sure there were more I never knew about), and I was intrigued to learn that my own grandfather had been adopted, as well. Years later, as I enjoyed one of my first dates with my future husband, I asked him how he felt about adopting children someday. "Great!" that adorable man answered. For some reason my premature comments didn't scare him off and, after making two babies ourselves, we adopted two more and completed our family. Adoption is a good thing.
Saturday, November 15th is National Adoption Day. This special day was established several years ago to help raise awareness of the need for foster care and adoption in this country. Currently 129,000 children in foster care are waiting to be adopted. For more information check out nationaladoptionday.org.
For an inspiring read on the subject, pick up Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul. In it, under "Defining Moments", you'll find a piece I wrote entitled, "Appropriately Impolite".
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Adoption is a great thing. It is close to my, and my wife's heart. My little twin sisters were adopted and my older sister adopted to girls as well. I hope to be able to continue that trend as well. I hope that we can be as good of parents that I have witnessed in you and Rob.
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