The whole process of choosing to adopt is fraught with doubt, confusion, fear, excitement, hope, more doubt and many leaps of faith. It’s one of the craziest things because when you make this particular leap of faith, there is no shortage of people reminding you of ALL the things that can go wrong and all the ways that your heart can be broken. The crazy part about that is… your mind has already gone there. Your heart is fragile and open and you KNOW that there is a very real possibility that it is going to be shattered into approximately 5.2 millions pieces.