Kerri and I have begun to talk more about another child. We’ve always sort of agreed that having two would be nice, but after Kerri’s horrific pregnancy we sort of took natural child birth off the table.

Adoption has come up many times when we talk about a second child. We adopted all of our dogs (two of which are greyhounds who have a surprisingly involved adoption process involving home visits) and I don’t mean to draw a comparison between dogs and kids, but idea of “taking over” for a birth parent isn’t entirely foreign. So, last week attended an adoption introduction at Amara. They specialize in placement of “special needs” children and are one of many options for adoption in the Seattle area. I found the whole thing much less uncomfortable than I had anticipated. While the process of adopting appears to be a painfully long and involved exercise in bureaucratic process, everyone is essentially advocating for the same thing—the love and care of a person.

We have several other agencies to visit, including WACAP, which we’ll be visiting this week,  and many more “big” decisions to make before anything remotely interesting begins to happen, but I’m actually really interested in the process and I think/hope I grasp the importance of it.

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