Life Trajectories

We arrived in Kiev a couple of days ago and have been slowly getting the hang of things around here.    We are enjoying our little apartment, the food, the people, and especially the weather!  Coming from the heat of Mississippi, the cool, crisp, windy weather is so refreshing.
I read a blog post today about the generational effects of adoption.  It spoke about how when you adopt, you change the life trajectory of the child's life, but also it changes your own life trajectory.  It struck a chord with me because we have found that to be so true.  We do think about how different Jocelyn and Ellie Grace's lives could have been.  Then we think how much they have changed our family's life.  Our big kids now want to foster, adopt, be involved with groups who help underpriviledged kids.  We could never imagine how much mine and Scott's life would change when we got that call that a baby girl was being born who needed a home.  Our entire life trajectory has changed.  And now in a few hours we have our first appointment in the process to adopt two boys.  It makes me step back and wonder what changes this will mean for us.  I am glad God's plans are always bigger and better than ours and I am excited to see our new trajectory.