We had a final “official” meeting with our social worker this morning, and bade warewell to the amazing woman who has accompanied us along the journey from being prospective adopters to somewhat experienced parents.
If you are a recent reader of my blog, a little back story is probably required.
After two years fighting our way through [...]
At some point tomorrow morning we will pack ourselves and the children into the car and travel to London, where we will be staying over the weekend to witness the marriage of my cousin from San Francisco to the fantastic guy she met over here a couple of years ago. They now live in Marin, [...]
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since we visited the foster carer’s house, and met the girls for the first time. A year of fun, stress, hard work, exasperation, elation, laughter, hilarity, tears, tantrums, paint, glitter, glue, and more pink than you can possibly imagine.
More than once over the past year while sat [...]
It’s been a while since I last wrote a proper blog post about “my life”, so perhaps a coffee break while sitting in London this morning is the perfect opportunity.
Main observations…
Your children tend to become the focus of everything you do
It’s easy for that focus to swamp everything else
Everything else includes each other
There will never [...]
I just realised – it’s now been four months since the end of our two year odyssey through the various hurdles and high jumps of the social services system. Four months since little people invaded our house for the first time. Four months that seems like a very long time ago now.
The children have confounded [...]
It’s Sunday morning and I find myself surrounded by seemingly bionic children. They powered up at about 7:30am, and have not let up all morning so far. We are several hours into the marathon that each day has become, and I am filtering out the mayhem to write a blog post.
My brother in law came [...]
I’m setting my alarm for 5am tomorrow morning. I’ll leave the house at 6, and with a little luck (subject to the railway and taxi gods), I’ll arrive on-site sometime around 9am. Emergency hotel accommodation is being arranged just in case tomorrow goes badly.
If I do end up staying overnight, it will be the first [...]
A close blogging friend remarked earlier that I had not written much about the children recently, and that I should – that she enjoyed reading about our experiences and thoughts so far.
Where to start?
We are now coming up to two months in the care of little ones who we now think of very much as [...]
While taking a break from the mayhem that tends to unfold throughout our house between 7am and 7pm each day, I thought it might be worth looking back at our first weeks as parents.
Life has changed out of all recognition. Any concept of personal space or time while in the house during the day (at [...]
I will be going to visit work tomorrow for an hour – the first time I have been back since leaving in late February to begin our adoption journey. It’s going to be strange leaving the kids behind for the morning.
While I can totally understand the need to make plans for the projects I will [...]
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