1. The fact that there are 143 million children without a parent to kiss them goodnight has made you lose sleep.
2. You realize DNA has nothing to do with love and family.
3. You can't watch Adoption Stories on TLC without sobbing.
4. The fact that, if 7% of Christians adopted 1 child there would be no orphans in the world, is convicting to you.
5. You spend free time surfing blogs about families who have experienced the blessing of adoption.
6. It drives you crazy when people ask you about adopted child's "real" parents.
7. You have ever been "pregnant" with your adoptive child longer than it takes an elephant to give birth.(2 years!)
8. You had no idea how you would afford to adopt but stepped out in faith anyway, knowing where God calls you He will provide.
9. You have ever taken an airplane ride half-way around the world with a child you just met.
10. You believe God's heart is for adoption.
11. You realize that welcoming a child into your heart and family is one of the most important legacies you could ever leave on this earth.
12. You know what the word "Dossier" means, and you can actually pronounce it!
13. You have welcomed a social worker into the most private parts of your life.
14. You shudder when people say your child is so lucky that you adopted them, knowing full well you are the blessed one to have him or her in your life.
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(stole this from Lisa and Shawn's blog.)
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This is great! This is my first visit to your blog. We are shortly behind you in the process- waiting for our CIS clearance and that is it. I can't wait to follow the rest of your journey!!! Oh- and we have 3 Chihuahuas!!! Loves of our lives!
Love it and it is sooo true!!
Love love love! I just read it out loud to my husband and he said "tell her that is soooooooo inspiring!"
I love that- very true my friend!
What a great list! Well said! Thanks. :)
I love this list! Can I steal it from your blog?
Can you steal something that's already been stolen from someone else?
Thanks for the post! It is great I had to steal a couple of the facts! Thanks!
Holli
These are all SO true!! The funniest thing is that I do BAWL my eyeballs out every time I see the TLC adoption stories! Every. Single. Time.
Wonderful post! I couldn't have said it better! Made my day!
Thanks for sharing this. I think about that sweet baby who is my neice even though I have never met her and I long to hold her, kiss on her and spoil her like all good aunties should.
Wonder what God has in store for our little Fundie family?
that's great, jana!
i'm so excited you're about to be a mommy :)
Congrats on being officially waiting!!! Yeah!! We are almost done with week seven, it feels like week 12 though! Maybe we'll travel together!
I stumbled upon your blog trying to locate Carissa Rawls (old camp friend) and was surprised to find that you are adopting from Ethiopia, because so are we! We were officially waitlisted in late January so it seems we are about in the same timeline as you guys. We'll be checking back in with your blog to hear how the adoption is going.
Lee Ann
p.s. Do you have any contact info for Carissa?
leeann.dunn@yahoo.com
www.girlyswirls.blogspot.com
Love it! Hope we get to see you soon!
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