I have always had a heart for adoption. Even when I was a little girl I would play that my baby dolls were adopted from an orphanage. Obviously, I didn't play paperwork, lawyers, and agencies, haha, just the childlike-story idea of just picking a child and being a parent. Even though I didn't realize how difficult adoption truly can be, I always wanted to adopt. I always believed that one day I would... |
Shortly after our one year anniversary, we spend some time serving in Haiti as short-term missionaries. Our main tasks while working there were leading short-term teams who came to our island, and teaching English as a second language. The one experience I wanted more than anything else there was to work with orphans, which I did get to do. We worked some with a local orphanage down the road from where we lived. I felt like it was during that time in my life where I had to start letting go of so many dreams that I had, so I was especially grateful that this was a dream that was able to come true, and I clung to it. |
After spending so much time with the kids at the orphanage, my husband's heart was very softened toward adoption. Mine became more so, and we decided together that adoption wasn't just something that we'd like to do one day, or something that would be cool...it was something we had to do. We fell in love with some of those kids and could easily have taken them home with us. |