We have been so blessed with our baby girl. She is healthy, beautiful, funny, sweet and just an all around perfect baby girl. I thank God for her everyday. She is the light of my life and I love to wake up next to her smiling face every morning. To see her sweet little grin and to kiss her chubby little cheeks every day is amazing. I am so blessed to be her Mommy.
My world feels complete with my baby girl and my wonderful husband. I just have this nagging feeling about adoption. Maybe it is a calling from God. DH and I have so much love to give. We have so much love in our hearts and we want baby girl to have siblings. Whether they grow in my body, or grow in our hearts is not an issue.
I have been researching adoption and have come across a wonderful place called, Reece's Rainbow. It is a wonderful adopion advocacy group that caters towards children with down syndrome. They have children with other issues as well, some with CP, HIV, FAS. I have been looking everyday at the waiting children and I want to bring them all home with me. Every last one! There are 3 little girls that I am drawn too though. Three precious angels that tug at my heart and I want them to come home and call me Mama. I want baby girl to be their big (little!) sister and to love on them and make them feel safe and happy always.
When baby girl and I look on the computer she likes to laugh and talk to their pictures. She gets very excited and waves her hands and claps at them on the screen. I wish we had 100K to bring all 3 angels home with us.
Adoption is such a wonderful thing, and makes the world a better place but it is so dang expensive. Even with grants, tax credits and donations, there are an astronomical amount of upfront fees and costs associated with adoption, especially when you factor in travel to another country.
We will be playing the lottery this weekend, and if we win there will be at least 3 new additions to our little family!
I admire any family that adopts a child. I hope to one day be one of those families! Until then, my only wish is that all those waiting children find their forever families quickly so they can start feeling the unconditional love and support of a family.
