Might As Well Face It, You're Addicted To Love

Scott and I are very dear friends with a couple who can’t have children.

Several years ago they came to us and told us that they were going to go through the process to get approved to adopt a child. They had already talked to the “powers that be” and were told that while it could take forever to get a baby, they could get an older child quicker. I think they agreed that they would take a child up to 5, but I could have that fact wrong.

They asked us to write a letter of recommendation for them.

So I sat down and wrote a letter straight from my heart. It talked about how kind they both are and why I thought they would be excellent parents.

They went through the process and got approved. The day they were approved they were told it could take MONTHS for a child to be placed in their home.

It wasn’t a week later that they got a call that there was a 4 week old little boy who needed a home. His parents are addicts and he was born addicted. If they thought they might be interested, he could be in their home in a couple days.

Interested?

OF COURSE THEY WERE INTERESTED.

So I went over and picked her up and we went to Babies R Us and grabbed a couple carts. I started telling her how many of what to get just to get them started. Other friends started arranging a baby shower.

Then he arrived.

4 weeks old and his birth mother had shot up within hours of delivering him.

The saddest thing was to see him try to get un-addicted to what his birth mother forced him to be addicted to.

But this child came into a home full of love and friends and family that would move mountains for him.

Today he is a normal kindergartener with a smile who will melt you hair.

When he was a couple years old, they received call that he had a brother. This baby was 4 months old and were they interested in him?

Interested?

OF COURSE THEY WERE INTERESTED.

So along came baby #2.

Also addicted.

Just as cute!

So began the journey of getting this little one clean and sober.

Sober he got and today he is a normal three year old who is hard headed and ALL BOY. This one can do no wrong in my eyes and I enjoy watching him when he doesn’t know that I am.

Over two years ago they received a call that the birth mother is in jail and she is pregnant. Were they interested in this unborn baby?

Interested?

OF COURSE THEY WERE INTERESTED.

So two years ago this month, they brought home the sweetest little girl. Big blue eyes and the same dimples as both of her brothers.

Born addicted, but not as bad as the boys. Apparently you CAN get things in jail.

This past Saturday she turned two. She can keep up with her older brothers like nobody’s business.

You want to know what is funny? ALL three of these kids look like our friends. To look at them, you would not know they were adopted.

It’s like God, when he was making these babies, took a little bit of our friends and dropped them into these children.

And then he dropped these children into a home full of love.

And now that home is really noisy.

And toys are everywhere.

And our get togethers are not what they used to be.

And NONE of us would have it any other way!