Our family.

Leif and I came to an interesting decision the other day. We decided that after this baby we would like to be done having our own children. Partly because I will have to continue to have c-sections, and mostly because our hearts are so set on adoption and foster care.

I always imagined myself with lots of children but I knew that those children would both be mine naturally and adopted. I think Leif and I both have hearts for foster care and adoption because of the part it plays in both of our families. One of the first things we talked about was foster care and adoption. Its not something we've thought about, its something that's going to be done.

Some people don't understand why this is something that's important to us, and thats okay. A few people have said, we just need to have our own children, we're too young to decide things like this. I'd like to know whats the exact age I can decide these things:) If God is calling us to do this, then that's what we're going to do. He has defiantly called us to do this.

I've been following this blog Adoptive Momma of Two, and I love it so much. Its a different view of adoption that I've never known. From the parents view. The first time I read through her blog I cried because I felt like I could understand my parents in a whole different way. Then I read this poem on her blog:

I didn't give you the gift of life,
But in my heart I know.
The love I feel is deep and real,
As if it had been so.

For us to have each other
Is like a dream come true!
No, I didn't give you
The gift of life,

Life gave me the gift of you.

How perfect. Her blog is full of so much wisdom for parents looking into adoption. I read it any chance I can get. Any way Leif and I decide to build our family, each child will be ours. Naturally or not.