Jessica Satterfield and her husband are the proud parents of three adopted children, and they strive to have open dialogues with their kids about all aspects of life.

 

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We saw @instantfamily tonight and I literally ugly cried in the theater. I’m talking, the high school couple groping each other beside me thought I had lost it, I was straight up crazy, like snorting and all. It was such an accurate depiction of foster care and all the emotions on every single side. It’s been a rough little bit with our boy sorting through some pretty big feelings. So in the movie when they said, “The hard things are the things that matter most,” I wailed (out loud). ?? Because it’s so true. And then without us even knowing, my sister @jleighmills and brother in law walk out of the movie into the lobby and I screamed across the way, “Were y’all in that movie?” They were. As I was sobbing (you know when you see family and your heart is tender it just makes you cry more and harder?). We both said, “Could you hear me crying in there?!” ??? It was good. It felt good to be understood tonight. Even if it was by actors. It’s good to be reminded that the hard things are the ones that really matter. ? It doesn’t make it any less hard, it just makes it more important to keep on keeping on. And we needed that tonight. #gracewhilewewait #instantfamily #fostercare #thisisfostercare

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Just like any other family, they enjoy going out together to the park, the beach, and to restaurants. Sadly, Jessica has become used to people staring at her family because her children have a different skin color than her and her husband. Last summer, the family was having a blast eating burgers together at a restaurant when Jessica noticed an elderly man staring at them.

When the man continued staring at them for a long period of time, Jessica found herself becoming annoyed. When she noticed the man approaching them, Jessica feared the worst and prepared herself for an ugly confrontation.

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Jessica felt extremely tense as the man reached out to touch her husband, but then, something happened that she did not expect. The man shook her husband’s hand and said, “I just wanted to tell you that you have such a beautiful family.” As he said that, the man’s eyes were full of tears, and he then walked away immediately.

When Jessica heard his kind words, she could not help but burst into tears herself. Jessica’s three children are adopted, and they each have brown skin compared to her white skin. To Jessica, love has nothing to do with skin color and is instead about acknowledging the love and care that children deserves no matter their background.

Jessica believes that the lessons she has taught her children can be summed up by what one of her sons recently told a friend:

“Families don’t have to match to be a family. What makes a family is their love.”

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