Media Monday: BYU TV

In between sessions of General Conference (when the leaders of our church speak to the world), we were watching BYUtv. To see the show, click here. It showed clips of different ages and races of kids all talking about their mothers and fathers. I thought it would be a show about how important parents are. Then they all started saying the names of their parents and they were all the same mom and dad. I was instantly glued to the TV. These loving parents adopted 21 kids, all from different places and in different circumstances. The parents said: "It was a decision we made with our hearts, not with our minds" They mentioned that they adopted kids that other people didn't want. They said that one was an abandoned abortion on a garbage can. My heart BROKE! That is so devastating. On the other hand, you look at all their kids now that are happy, healthy, educated, loved, etc and you know they are in a better position due to the selflessness of the birth families and the adoptive parents. "We do it because we love them." Really, love is what encompasses ALL sides of adoption. The birth parents place their babies for adoption, because they love them more than they love themselves. The adoptive couple loves the birth parents and the baby and want to help both of them. The baby just has extra love from many sides! Caden's comment: "I was adopted, wasn't I?" - Although Caden was biological, he has heard us talk so often about adoption that he figured that is how he came to the family. We feel so blessed that we were able to have one biolgical child, but we haven't been able to have more children. We could not be more excited to adopt! We made the decision to adopt both with our hearts and with our minds. We know that our family is supposed to grow through the miracle of adoption. However, we also feel a great desire to help birth parents that want more for their children.