Adoption Is Not:

1. Easy: Dossier preparation falls somewhere between inventing a new energy source and performing your own kidney transplant.
   
2. Fast: 6 months of dossier prep + 6 months to 4 YEARS wait time = you do the math.
   
3. Certain: Expected wait times can balloon from 6 months to 4 years at the drop of a hat and entire programs can be suspended with little notice. Yes, YEARS into the process you can be told that the process is no longer possible.
   
4. Plan B: Please, do not make assumptions, chances are you're incorrect.
   
5. An obligation: Our obligation is to love.
   

Adoption is: A personal and spiritually led decision that my husband and I made to embrace family in all forms, embrace brotherhood as nature intended, and embrace love as God intended. It's amazing, excruciating, beautiful, painful, enlightening and shattering. It's love, and we're in it for the long run.