Talked with Dh about future adoption...long
Posted: Mar 22, 2006 12:02 pm
My Dh and I sat down last night and talked about adopting down the line. He really wanted his own child so he was hesitant about it before. Now that I'm pregnant he is more than willing to discuss it. Of course it would be a few years off since we would want this baby to be the older sibling.
I have made it pretty clear that I won't go through this again. I'm not good at being pregnant and frankly, I just don't enjoy it all that much. My thinking is why go through this again when there are so many kids out there who need a home?
Ideally, I'd like to pull a kid out of the foster care system. I'd like to feel that I'm helping give a child a home and a real family who otherwise wouldn't have that. When I was growing up we had foster kids and all of them were great kids. It broke my heart when they were moved on to yet another home facing a life of strangers.
Anyway, my DH was quite pumped about the idea. Since my other 2 kids are so much older this baby is going to be like an only child and I'd like to be able to give him/her a little brother or sister. DH understands my feelings on helping kids and told me that if we had the kind of money it would take he'd be willing to open our home to as many kids as we could handle.He said if we won the lottery we could take in 23 like Dave Thomas.*L* He's a pretty awesome guy really. I suggested becoming foster parents but he said he really doesn't think he could stand parting with a child when the time came. I can't blame him there.
So, something for us to ponder once this baby is born and we are settled into our new life.
Kind of exciting really.
Kris
I have made it pretty clear that I won't go through this again. I'm not good at being pregnant and frankly, I just don't enjoy it all that much. My thinking is why go through this again when there are so many kids out there who need a home?
Ideally, I'd like to pull a kid out of the foster care system. I'd like to feel that I'm helping give a child a home and a real family who otherwise wouldn't have that. When I was growing up we had foster kids and all of them were great kids. It broke my heart when they were moved on to yet another home facing a life of strangers.
Anyway, my DH was quite pumped about the idea. Since my other 2 kids are so much older this baby is going to be like an only child and I'd like to be able to give him/her a little brother or sister. DH understands my feelings on helping kids and told me that if we had the kind of money it would take he'd be willing to open our home to as many kids as we could handle.He said if we won the lottery we could take in 23 like Dave Thomas.*L* He's a pretty awesome guy really. I suggested becoming foster parents but he said he really doesn't think he could stand parting with a child when the time came. I can't blame him there.
So, something for us to ponder once this baby is born and we are settled into our new life.
Kind of exciting really.
Kris