This Spring we made our trip to India. We had so much fun
learning about the culture, shopping in the markets, and visiting the Taj
Mahal-it was the best trip ever! We could tell that the Lord’s hands were over
each and every aspect of our trip.
We LOVED getting to spend time with our friends Grant and Nicole (and of
course, Jack!) and seeing about what life looks like in India. We had the most
incredible trip with the highlight most definitely being the time we spent at
an orphanage in Delhi. While we were there we had the incredible opportunity to
educate the workers on exercises and activities they could be doing with their
‘special needs’ children. We are
by no-means pediatric specialists but we both learned a lot in school and on
clinical internships that we felt could benefit children living in an
orphanage. The workers were all so
sweet and eager to learn and we left there feeling so rewarded in that if we
were able to improve the quality of life of one child in that orphanage-the trip
to India was totally worth it!
We would usually spend our mornings there working with the children with special needs-especially a boy with cerebral palsy who had pretty much the best smile I have ever seen! In the afternoons we would spend our time holding and loving on the babies. They were the most precious things we had ever seen-beautiful with big brown eyes and the sweetest little smiles and facial expressions (see the pictures below!) We fell in love with those sweet babies and we left the orphanage that last day with tears in our eyes that we couldn’t bring them all home with us. One of our last nights in India I woke up around 2 a.m. just crying-my heart aching for those sweet baby girls at the orphanage and thinking that they may never have a loving family. I decided to get on my phone and search about India’s guidelines for international adoptions. After reading CARA’s 27 page document on my phone (my eyes were hating me!) I found out that the minimum age to adopt was 28. I was a little sad thinking that that was still 4 years away but thought if it was God’s plan for us to wait to adopt then that’s what we do...
Here are a few of the sweeties that pulled at our heart strings!
We would usually spend our mornings there working with the children with special needs-especially a boy with cerebral palsy who had pretty much the best smile I have ever seen! In the afternoons we would spend our time holding and loving on the babies. They were the most precious things we had ever seen-beautiful with big brown eyes and the sweetest little smiles and facial expressions (see the pictures below!) We fell in love with those sweet babies and we left the orphanage that last day with tears in our eyes that we couldn’t bring them all home with us. One of our last nights in India I woke up around 2 a.m. just crying-my heart aching for those sweet baby girls at the orphanage and thinking that they may never have a loving family. I decided to get on my phone and search about India’s guidelines for international adoptions. After reading CARA’s 27 page document on my phone (my eyes were hating me!) I found out that the minimum age to adopt was 28. I was a little sad thinking that that was still 4 years away but thought if it was God’s plan for us to wait to adopt then that’s what we do...
Here are a few of the sweeties that pulled at our heart strings!
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