Monday, September 10, 2012

Life's Greatest Journey...

When I look back on my life I doubt I am going to say, "opps." I believe everything we do in life has some purpose. Big or small. Skipping things and choosing things are equally as important in the scheme of life. During my brief employment at a local fast food chain I was having a horrible night and I was rushing to fill the order of four milkshakes to the drive-thru window when I slipped on a discarded paper towel and threw the contents all over myself and the floor I landed on. My manager came to me as I was sulking and trying desperately to clean up the mess, he said, "Don't worry about it, in a hundred years who is going to care?" That lit a fire in me that just ripped at me, which I am sure was displayed on my face as I rolled my eyes at him.

As a Christian, I know that in a hundred years I will still exist, and every lesson I learn in this life will only add to the quality of my life. In a hundred years I will care, because this was a moment when I decided that I wanted to do more than work with that guy, I wanted something different. Just as it was for Keith and I when we wanted to begin a family. We hit road blocks and had to find different routes, this was a choice. We could stop there and live happily, travel the world maybe, settle into hobbies, or a thousand other options. But, we chose adoption. In hindsight it seemed to be a bit of an obvious choice for the both of us, with our exposure and family make-up; but it the end it was a miracle of a choice.

Adopting Liam is surely the best thing either of us have ever done in our entire lives. We feel truly blessed to have this little man in our lives and so happy to be his parents. Its truly amazing to look back now and see the road we traveled down to get from there to here; though our stint in the NICU was not a vacation, I doubt either of us would have changed a thing. Every child deserves a home, even the sick ones and those less than "perfect" situations. Our son is perfect, challenging, loud, adorable, grumpy at times, but completely and utterly apart of our family. Adoption has brought our family together forever.

Never Change Anything that Makes You this Happy

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