The last time we started the adoption process, my entire world focused around doing everything we could to bring our boy home … and to bring him home now.

While we fundraised and organized and completed adoption document after adoption document, I thought about Superman. I dreamed about Superman. I talked incessantly about Superman. I FOCUSED on Superman. And I did everything I possibly could to ensure that Superman didn’t spend one second longer in an orphanage than he absolutely had to.

The problem was that, somewhere along the way, I got so focused on the superhero coming INTO our home that I forgot to be fully present for the ones already living INSIDE of it.

I was so busy chasing THAT boy that I almost neglected THESE.