"Would you be open to a sibling group?"

Hmmm.... we answer questions all the time.  If you have small children at home, you answer them constantly.  Some questions aren't so significant, like, "What's for dinner?" of "Plain or buttered?".  Some questions, by their answer, change the course of your life, like, "Will you marry me?".  We got a question like that from our adoption agency about 2 weeks ago.  Imbedded in an email of introduction from the Waiting Child Program was the question... would you potentially be open to adopting a sibling group instead of a single child?  A question like that just begs more questions.  Would we have to raise our age limit?  Would we need to be open to adopting girls?  Etc, etc.  With a call to the adoption agency, it was with those questions I began the call.  The answer was, "Well, honestly, we actually had a particular sibling group in mind."  She then proceeded to tell me about 2 brothers ages 3 and 4.  I was standing outside on a beautiful summer afternoon having this phone conversation and I remember thinking, mark this down, remember this moment, because this may be one of those moments that changes life forever.  Indeed.  The next couple days were spent with Mark and I praying, crying and working through the decision to go from three to FIVE sons!  Yeh, that takes some thinking about.  However, at the same time, it seemed so obvious.  Really Lord? TWO boys?  You know that makes FIVE, right?  Of course you do, you can count, you invented counting... yes, I remember, 2 by 2...  Seriously, though, I think our boys had the best perspective of all.  We called a family meeting and asked the boys what they thought about having two little brothers instead of one.  They didn't even understand why we were belaboring the question.  To them it was very simple.  This was the BEST news ever.  What was there to even think about?  OF COURSE they wanted two brothers.  Joshua was borderline frustrated that we even hesitated.  This is what we do.  We are christians, called to adopt.  This is what God would have us do.  They belong with us.  These are our brothers..... so, decision made.  Question answered.  Yes, we would like to pursue adoption of these two brothers.... and so, it begins...