In February of the following year we found ourselves sitting in an informational meeting for foster care. John and the boys were super excited, but I was still hesitant. I didn’t know if I could do it. Could we navigate this with our boys, and protect their hearts? Could we love a child that may not stay the same as we loved our own kids?  I knew that if we did this everything about our life was going to change. As we sat in the meeting I was really hoping to hear something that would tell us it wasn’t the right path. As the lady talked the opposite happened. The…

That is what a lot of people would say about how they began their journey, but I don’t know if it is really what we would have said in the beginning. Adoption had been a topic of conversation between John and I before we were even married. We were open to the idea but we weren’t sure if it was a path God would take us down.  Foster care was not even a word that was in our vocabulary.  Our oldest son was probably 5 or 6 when he started talking to us about his desire for us to adopt. It started off with little conversations that we would just…