Lucky?

We often get the comment that our kids are so "lucky" that we are adopting them. This is one of the most annoying things an adoptive parent can hear. Every child deserves a home. Children born into a stable home with a nice house and family aren't reminded continually that they are lucky for having such a normal life. It's taken for granted.

For our kids to wind up in an orphanage at their tender age through no fault of their own is profoundly unlucky. When they come home with us they will have lost everything: their birth family, their country, their culture, their language. It will be akin to being abducted by aliens.

On the other hand, we have been allowed to bring these two beautiful babies into our home who have characteristics and talents that are no credit to us; who bring in a light into our boring life; who have expanded our horizons further than we ever thought we could go, and this is just the beginning. Lucky? Yes. We are the lucky ones.