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Jeff here;
So we are done birthing kids. Yup, we may adopt in the future, but for now we are through.
Basically adoption for us rides on McCain winning president and doing something about the red tape and cost of adoptions.

You may be asking why an dhow we decided that we were done. Well, I was meditating one night and an angel came to me and said ....we'll save that for a different post

Really we have been thinking about it and praying about it for around a year and a half now. It comes down to this (in no particular order):

1. there is thought that Crohn's is hereditary. When I was diagnosed they thought it was maybe 10% chance of having genetic origins, now it is around 40%. I do not want my kids to get this.

2. Ministery. We have watched a family of 8 try to missionary activities in other countries, it doesn't look good. Either they send the kids to boarding school, or they are not focused on ministry. Both 'Dess and I believe that going overseas is in our future. Plus right now we have several things at the church (all our college kids) which we love and want to be more involved with.

3. Love; we love our kids to no end. Some kids do not get that. I believe it is a selfish American culture to think that my genes are so great I need to continue to pop out kids even though there are hundreds of thousands of kids sitting in orphanages around the world just waiting for love.


That about sums it up. So what do you all think, how many kids are enough?

(btw, don't anybody use the "quiverfull" theology on me. It is full of holes and is very legalistic)

Thanks
Jeff