Head count

At least once a week I sit down at the dinner table and say, "Are we all here?  Who's missing?  Someone is missing." It happened again tonight but everyone was there as usual.  Yet, there is someone missing; someone who has not yet joined our family.

Over the past few months our family has come close to adoption two times.  It's been disappointing to watch things unfold and not work out for us in the end.  Talking to a birth mother who has considered or chosen us put us on the highest highs.  The other end of that is having a birth mother change her mind or chose another family.  We've cried together over these "adoption miscarriages".  Through the hard times we've grown closer as a couple and as a family.  I have faith that one day things will work out and we'll be able to welcome another member into our family.

Look at that face! Who wouldn't want to adopt again?