*100- Whoopie

The title is said with a bit of sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell. This is our 100th blog post. A milestone with little to show for it. But, like I said before, this has been quite therapeutic, and helps me feel a little less alone on this journey.

Today Keith and I finally sent in our special needs considerations to our agency. It was hard for us to think about raising a child with severe or minor special needs, and decide what we would want to handle. What we want to handle and what we could handle are probably quite different. This was kind of like deciding on the gender of our child- in the adoption world you have to play God a little more than when you have a child by birth.

Some were easy to think about - cleft palate is common and not life-altering, mild deformities ultimately do not affect the wellbeing of a child, some things like visual impairment, hearing impairment, birthmarks, asthma.... we already have in our family anyway. Are we ready for heart defects, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, HIV....? We are unsure, but will pray about it if a child with those needs come along. We did say a for sure no on a few special needs, which was hard to do.

Lord, change our minds if this is what the child you have for us suffers from.