[Debra]

DH and I brought our kids home mid-April of this year. They are a brother and sister, then aged 11 and 14 (they both had b-days in October so now are 12 and 15).
As first time parents, we've been completely overwhelmed. Of course, in addition to normal "baggage", we've got adolescence to deal with. Things might be VERY different with younger kids.
We were 100% committed to adopting older sibling groups (I even considered up to 6 children) because I knew they were hard to place. I said "The more the merrier!" I was wrong. If I had to do it over, we'd start with one. Parenting these kids is hard enough, but a sibling group provides it's own unique challenges.
It's hard to explain. But I thought we were really prepared, except that parenting adopted (special needs) kids is totally different than parenting bio-kids. The only problem is that never having been a parent before, it's hard to determine what is *normal* kid behavior, and what isn't. And it gets more complicated when it is multiplied by 2 (or 3 or more...)
Anyway, I'm glad we have the kids (BOTH of them, and I'm only saying that because they've been well-behaved for the past 4 days or so.....LOL).
I think it would have been much easier and less stressful to start with ONE child. Of course, those of use who chose to adopt aren't neccesarily concerned with doing EASY things!
Good luck, be sure to communicate a lot with your hubby because it is definately VITAL that you two are in total agreement before-hand. That's one of the bad things about more than one child...they frequently try to play one parent against the other. Luckily DH and I are on the same page most of the time and had a very strong relationship going into this. Otherwise, we wouldn't have made it through these past 6 months.
Bottom line, it is definately do-able, just harder than we thought it would be, and like I said before, it might be much easier with younger children also.