By the previous posts you've probably gathered that we've been talking a lot about adoption with the boys. Periodically one or the other will come up with questions or go through phases when remembering is very important to them as they worry about forgetting their lives before adoption.
This past weekend our talks took an unprecedented turn. Lucas came up to me and asked if our church helped to adopt us. We've talked about this a lot. They know that our church family as well as others were vital in bringing them home, from the very start without our community and church they would most definitely not be here in our family today. So I once again waited and wondered where this conversation was headed.
Didn't have to wait long. Luke said one of his friends told him that she knew about him before he ever knew any of us. That she got to see pictures of him in church before he saw pictures of his new family and that she helped bring him home.
I asked if he thought she knew what she was talking about. His wise response? "Yep. I know she did and the church people too but it's really weird that she knew me first cause I'm older and older people are supposed to know things first. Right? Cause your old and you know stuff I don't know. So that's just the way it's supposed to be. Old people know stuff."
I asked what he thought old was. "You know mom like 35." Made this old mom feel slightly better but we did go on to talk about how even some of the small kids from church remember when we were all working hard to bring them home. That even small kids have the ability and understanding to affect the world around them.
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