The Photo That Brought Us Back: An Adoption Story About Second Chances and Family

If you are standing at your own threshold, facing a change you did not choose, take one step. If you are wondering whether love can survive disappointment, it can. If you are considering adoption or the work of co-parenting, know that ordinary faithfulness is more than enough.

Good homes are built from small rooms of kindness. Good families are built by people who decide to keep the door open. Love finds its way back through habits, not headlines. Begin with one visit, one walk in the park, one honest conversation. Begin again, as many times as needed.

Five years after that rainy night, our picture on the wall tells a quiet story that still grows. It says that a home can be rebuilt. It says that second chances are real. It says that love is not over when plans change. Often, love is just waiting for a new reason to exist, and a new name to answer to.