The journey to adoption... Late on a Saturday morning in November 2010, my life changed forever. I picked up my first foster placement, a brother and sister. I will never forget the first time I saw Jaylin. He was in a state of shock, void of any emotion and completely disconnected from the world around him. The day I met Jay Over the next ten months, I watched this boy transform in every way. Ten months building a relationship and something happened in my heart, I knew this was my son. Once their situation of removal from birth mom became permanent, he had to leave me because the County didn't want to split the two up and I knew that I could not take his sister on permanently. He spent a year and a half in another foster home where he was not cared for except by his school. Hard to describe what it feels like to have 'my son' not only away from me, but in a place that was damaging him. When he came home in 2013, there was no guarantee that he would be able to at...