From another adoptive family with 10 children who just adopted little Katie...

She is warming up to us more every day, snuggling up to us, accepting more and more touch, even kisses, with pleasure. Clearly, God has kept Katie in the palm of His hand, preparing her to give and receive love, just as we and many others have been praying for her.
Via Skype, we got to witness the first reaction of our firstborn to seeing Katie in our arms on Monday. He said, with emotion in his voice, “We really have her. She’s really ours.”
And that sums up how we feel about this tiny rare treasure.
We are utterly enamored.
We can hardly believe we really have the enormous privilege of caring for this remarkable child.
You have heard it said that life is cheap.
Don’t you believe it for one second.
All the months of hard work, the piles and loads of documents, the painful lessons learned, the extra financial expenses, the painful loss of privacy, the loss of many hours of rest and sleep, the pain of being misjudged, the excruciating waiting times, the unnumbered intense spiritual battles with the accuser of the brethren, the heart-stopping drama that God decided to heap on thickly…
…the difficulties we know are still ahead of us…
…the cost.
Adoption should be hard. We are glad it is hard. And no matter how hard, how painful, how steep the cost…
It doesn’t come close to the value of the life of this one precious human being.