it's so interesting to me that things would turn out this way. to go from dr's telling us that invitro is our only hope, deciding what we really want out of a family, deciding to do foster care, and now having 3 kids that are all somewhere in the process of being adopted. i just can't believe that this is our life, that this is MY life, and that this is their life.
just talking to my mom and explaining to her how we thought we'd have moved through life with several different foster kids over the next few years, how we thought that we'd have had to wait such a long time for this. we'd prepared ourselves for the worst, thinking maybe we'd have a kid with cigarette burns, broken bones or RAD and yet we ended up with such normal, resilient kids that are just a typical 3 and 4 year old (and yes, <4 month old).
if i could wave a magic wand and change our life and have had a bio-kid instead, i couldn't do it. there is no way i would give up these 3 just to have the experience of giving birth to a baby. there will probably always be a part of me that longs for that experience, but it would never replace the excitement of falling in love with these 3 and knowing all the more that we just didn't choose them, God chose them for us.
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