That morning, I dropped our eldest at kindergarten and returned home to let our two younger children play while I worked on my1report. It was wonderful, but it disappointed me that my job in hospital wasn't2to anyone's life. I was quite3I needed something that push me to grow. My job allowed me to work at home. So I could become a foster (领养) mother,4safety for a child who needed it.
On Monday morning, I5the phone and called the nearest Department of Children' Services. The man on6end understood my questions and explained the next step of training,7eight weeks of classes designed to prepare and8foster parents.
From then on, we continued through all the9, the home visits, background checks, and other endless10to finish.
Five long months after we were11, the phone rang. In the middle of the night, I12my husband and rushed to Children's Hospital—our child to be adopted (收养) was13us in the emergency room, seriously ill. It didn't take long for us to14the full depth of her pain. Six months later, her half-brother also15us by our request. We now had five children under our16.
On August 12, 2016, our family of17walked into a small courtroom (审判庭) happily to finish the last step of adoption (收养). The children's lawyer and social worker were there.18just a few words, our adoption was finalized. These two amazing children weren't going home from that moment,19they were already home. We are their forever family and they are our forever20.
We may not be able to change the whole world, but we have changed the world completely for our new children.
