I think mostly people are afraid to ask, but there are a few who do. It goes something like, "I know you're going through a lot and I'm not sure if you've even thought about it, but are you guys going to try to adopt again?" I have three really simple words to tell you, YES WE ARE! What I want to say is "OF COURSE WE ARE!!!" Just because our hearts have been broken with Olaf doesn't change the statistics (which are now 3 years old) that there are over 100,000 children in foster care in CA alone. Sit with that for a minute. We don't call them orphans anymore, but over 100,000 children are without a forever home. Additionally, our pain doesn't change the fact that the bible talks about caring for widows and orphans multiple times (our personal favorite being James 1:27, look it up:). And lastly, maybe most importantly, it doesn't change the fact that we were called to this. I get that you don't all understand that, which is fine, just trust me on this one.
We were never promised it would be easy, we were never told to give up when it was tough, we're going to keep forging ahead and we can't wait to continue to grow our family. Now, don't get me wrong, we're grieving right now and we're not ready TODAY for another child, but make no mistake, we're jumping back into this whole adoption thing.
If you have an opinion on this, keep it to yourself. Quite frankly, we don't totally want to hear it. Our response would probably be something you wouldn't like, yeah...look out, mama is getting fiesty:)
Happy Weekend.
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