There is a lot of hoping involved in raising a child. You hope your child stops crying and goes back to sleep. You hope he will eat more so you won’t be in trouble at the next checkup. You hope he is alive when you go to get him in the morning. You hope to get that big grin when you get home from work. You hope that flicker in his eye, is a flicker of recognition that you are his father. You hope he doesn’t hurt himself. You hope he doesn’t eat too much sand. Mostly you just hope that he is happy. Happy with himself. Happy with who he is and happy with who he becomes. All of this hope is bundled up into an aching love that I didn’t know until I was a father.<\/p>\n
Adoption adds more hoping. You hope for amazing birth parents. You hope for a birth father that can relate to your son. Somebody who can explain the past. Somebody who can be where the boy came from. And for this, I don’t need to hope.<\/p>\n
Happy Father’s day Jonathan, Dad, Lew, Luke, and all the fathers in our big extended family. Thank you for hoping, and thank you for being all I could hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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