Saturday morning, I’m having a little chat with D while making her breakfast. We talk about the adoption order again – there’s still time before we go through it but we’re mentioning it every now and again. I explain that after it’s all finalised, her last name will change to our last name. “But what […]
Category: Parenting
“When Can I Go Back?”
Throughout the adoption process, we kept hearing about the “honeymoon period” that families usually experience shortly after little one has moved in. This essentially means that neither parents nor child know each other very well, so everyone are trying to be on their best behaviour to make the best impression. For the child there is […]
De-attachment
The final morning of intros. We’re getting closer to the foster carer’s house. A song starts on our playlist that we like, we get a bit disappointed when it stops midway through as we reached the house. “Never mind”, I think, “we’ll just continue where we left off”. Unlike almost every other day during intros, […]
Superparents
We’re not heroes. We’re just people who want to have kids, who can’t have kids the way most people have them. Sure, I guess, we could have gone through some other route, but we chose this one. But we’re not heroes. We can’t allow ourselves to think of ourselves as heroes, because we need to […]
Hand in Hand 