Just keep swimming...Just keep swimming
This week we received our homestudy approval! My heart smiles when I think we are that much closer to adding our little guy to our family. As I reflect over our process up to this point, it's been very minimal in terms of time , in comparison to other family stories we've heard and I feel conflicted. Joyful for our particular process, but also i feel heartache for the families who have already waited so long and invested so much... joyful in hope and patient in affliction. It's interesting how affliction can take on so many forms. There's mixture of anger and frustration. The number of kiddos without families is so massive why does the process have to be so time consuming and tedious? Why do so many kids have to suffer loss and lack of connectedness at the hand of a system that is flawed. It's hard for me to stop looking at the waiting children postings, wanting to bring many of them back with us. Again I feel a sting of pain over the brokenness; broken families...