Homeward Bound

I’m surprised at how often the universe finds just the right home for adopted kids. Sometimes it seems like those little boys and girls were meant to come to their forever family from the beginning, and just had a brief detour in the meantime. Three of my kids were fortunate enough to go to a great preschool program at the university nearby, and one of their favorite teachers, amazing with small people and meant to be a mom if anyone was, had a long struggle finding the boy who would be her son. There were bumps and bruises and heartbreaking moments along the way, but they finally met the boy they’d been waiting years for. And he was obviously supposed to be theirs. He could not have looked more like a combination of the two of them if he had been engineered in a lab (which they had already tried to no avail). In fact, years later they got a surprise bio-baby--and she looked like someone else’s kid. Funny how that works. One of my cousins is an import--but sometimes I have to be reminded of that. I forget that she came from somewhere else because she fits so well here. Sassy, brassy, chatty gal? Yep, she’s ours. Whoever or whatever is pulling the strings out there knows what they’re doing. In Melissa Lagonegro’s Home, Stinky Home, Lilo and Stitch try to find just the right family for their pungent friend. And they do. But I bet the universe helped.

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