Continuing our celebration of National Adoption Month, here is another personal story from a family sewn together through adoption. Thank you to the Prichard family for sharing their hearts with us.
Adoption for us would start with a television show on girls in
China. A phone call to a very close friend would confirm that this would
be a great adventure for my husband and I to take. My heart and my mind
were on a journey, one that would bring a daughter home to us after having two
biological children. The country was China, but plans change and Korea was the
country chosen. We waited as patiently as we could, and the day would
come that we would see her little face on our computer as quickly as the dial
up internet would allow. I remember the tears and the excitement we had
that day. She would come home in a very short while and was one of the
three most beautiful babies my eyes had ever seen.
As life has it the journey would not be complete. It wasn't
long before my heart once again felt that tugging feeling. My heart may
at the time been the only one feeling that but being married to a good man left
me with hope that he would change his mind. He put some rules down on
this next adoption thinking it would take me awhile to find another baby that
fit his ideas, but it was only a matter of days until I saw my little boy in
China. I knew in an instant that he would be ours and when my husband
came home it only took him a moment to also realize this angel would be our
son. I didn't get to travel to China as our house was now full of little
ones. This always broke my heart but I knew my husband and parents would
bring our little boy home to me.
Fast forward years and life is full of adventures with our four
children. Adoption has not always been an easy path, it is hard to grasp
just how much our little ones have lost and how that affects daily life and
family. For this reason I have learned the true meaning of unconditional
love and marveled time after time at how my heart can love so fully and
completely beyond biology. I would never trade being their mom for all
that I know and feel. Adoption has changed me for the better and become
and huge part of who I am.
As life would have it once again there would be there little nudge
in my heart. I knew this time the wanting another child might not work as
this would be a child number five. I knew I had to be patient and wait until
my husband either said yes or no. I knew he truly had to be ok to add another
child and had to make up his own mind. Three weeks later he said the
answer was yes. Yes to making our family big by today's standards, loud
in so many ways, and full of love. So we are waiting again for me to be
called Mom by one more little one. He will be our baby and waiting for
him is so very hard. Praying and trusting that they day will come that I
can travel to Korea and hold him in my arms. Arms that will have to share
because not only has my heart been tugged by adoption but each child we have
has been changed by adoption.
So the journey continues as we move from a family of six to seven!
Teri Prichard
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