No kids yet. Just a meeting over the phone with HOLT. It went a little like this...
"Hello. So we know you are currently trying to adopt two kids."
WAIT! Hold up! we don't have any kids to adopt at the moment.
"No we had two kids but they told us due to recent findings in behavior and such they weren't fit for us to adopt. Is there something we're missing?"
"We had two Americans in the area who evaluated Kevin and Sheba further, and more thoroughly. They said they would be ok to adopt, that is if your willing."
I wasn't home during the meeting, I was at swim practice, so I had no idea what was going on. My mom takes my brother to a friends house that night so while they are gone, my dad fills me in. He says we may be able to adopt Kevin and Sheba again. All these thoughts go through my head. 'God does have a plan! He knows exactly what he's doing. After all the heartbreak I went through before just trying to decide that God wanted my family and I to adopt, getting kids, having them taken away and being told they wouldn't fit with our criteria... . Faith is what I'm being taught through all this. Faith, patience, acceptance,forgiveness, and love.'
Now came the hard part. Deciding as a family that we were willing to adopt them.... again. It seems odd that we would have to go through the process of choosing kids again when we chose them before, but when your in this situation, new things come up the second time around and you can't help but pray your doing the right thing. I think we're all scared. Scared for the new things that could happen, the new challenges we might face, the beautiful hardships that will teach us things we can only know by adopting kids. It's nerve-racking yet thrilling. And I can't wait to see what will happen next and the new things God will teach us.
Check out My mom's blog about it: www.vhoeksadopt.blogspot.com
