There is an old Yiddish adage that says "Man plans and God laughs." I'm not sure that's true, but if it is, then I bet when God needs a good laugh he looks at my plans. My whole life has been full of detoured plans and crushed timelines. I won't bore you with a lifetime of excessive details of how things didn't go as I anticipated. It's the same old song and dance and I'm sure you could sing the second verse. Everyone has a lifetime of stories about how life didn't go as they expected. So let me just tell you how we planned to build our family and how God had other plans. Man plans Even though my wife and I always planned on adopting some of our children, we figured we would have our own biological children first. We always heard about people who adopted as a backup plan because they couldn't have biological children, so we thought we were going to help promote adoption by having biological children first and then adopting later. God must have thought that was funny. We started foster and adoption classes two months after we got married with the idea [...]