Heart. Breaking.

Tonight one of my kids said they wanted to be adopted by me forever. 
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I've been purposefully sharing what that means ever since I went to the adoption fundraiser the other night. 
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We also recently met or saw some people who had adopted.
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The youngest picked a reading book about the Orphan Trains this week.  We read it together this evening and then talked about how they were almost like Orphans right now.  That's when the comment came out. It was serious.  Not joking.
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I feel for them.
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It's hard not to say anything.

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