Sage Robbins

So, you know, just not giving up, not giving up on your dream, not giving up on what's possible, not closing the door.

And I think that's probably the biggest lesson that that schooled me is just, you know, life's timing has a rhythm and has its seasons, as Tony just shared, and trust in something larger than yourself.

and um and also along the path appreciate and fall in love with what is because there's miracles and love all around us um and i think and enjoy that you know enjoy that you know the mary who's carried our baby when she was coming to there then there was the uncertainty of

It's sometimes many times often we're traveling, you know, to go to an event.

They do that on the path of surrogacy.

And I never imagined that.

I think also part of that possibility was my parents' own journey and us growing up in a home that had the diversity of foster children.

And, you know, these children would come into our homes and my parents would say, this is your brother and sister.

You shared your room.

You shared your toys.

You shared your life with them.

And I had no clue of the impact of that and the mirror of that and the model of that to love beyond the unit.

It's chosen family.

You know, it's an expanding the view of family.

And my parents really were such an amazing, we, you know, we were raised with different ethnicities in our home.

And it really was such a rich environment growing up.

And I see that fortuitousness of life coming full circle now that we have a chosen family.

That's not weird, but you're

You know what I mean?

You were just saying.