My thoughts- Kevin

Adoption was not really something I was open to originally. I remember when Cris first started talking to me about having children and I just didn't feel ready yet. We'd only been married for a year and were planning our strategy to begin as missionaries and I just didn't see how that her being pregnant and having a baby would be smart form them to travel on deputation for 18 months with no home. I remember a lot of conversations we had about having children and one of the thoughts she kept bringing up was the thought about one day adopting a child. For me that was way across the line. I couldn't figure out how to handle one of our own and now she wants to talk to me about adopting one that's not? So for years I brushed the comments under the rug and would smile at her and say "one day", then everything changed. The day came when we found we had to consider other options. We seriously thought about in vitro but the cost/risk was way to high for us to even begin to wrap our minds around. Then ironically we watched a movie that we had seen so many times before and afterward we were getting ready for bed and she said to me we should think about adoption, which I had been keeping my mouth shut about but was thinking the exact same thing. Something inside of us simply changed that night and God opened our eyes to the reality that there was a child somewhere out there that was destined to live in our home. We've got so much work to do before hand. There's a pile of paperwork that we need to navigate through. We have books to read, classes to take and money to raise, but someday soon, we'll bring home a little ________. Can't wait to post a picture