Thankful

Adoption just like birth can be such an unknown. Each child so unique. Entirely their own person so different from each other and from you. For some it works out so perfectly and for others it can be so hard. We have eight going on nine children. Wonderful blessings. Six of them at home and anxiously awaiting our newest daughter. For us it is easy. I say is not was. There was a time, a hurt child, in our home when it was hard. When we got broken in to helping the hurting. So I have compassion and understanding for those parenting hurting children...by birth or adoption. But now we are on easy street as they say. My biggest struggles, my hardest day to day tasks are getting things done...I have six children that praise be to God want to talk to me...want my attention...need me to do this or that for them.  All at the same time of course! Tiring as it can be sometimes it is also the most incredible life I could hope for! I see adoption posts on keeping it real...sometimes the real is hard....but for us the real is amazing. No sugar coating, no trying to make it sound good, just 100 percent REAL.  For these children that God has given me I am truly thankful.  



ADD ON to this post...a friend asked me if this was directed at her, so I want to make it clear that this is in no way a post against anyone who is having a hard time. I have been there as I said .... I just wanted to post that sometimes it really is the happily ever after that we all hope for.