Tag: Adoption

  • Effort

    I am currently working toward rewiring my brain on how I feel toward one of our children. They have hurt me so bad to where my brain is now trying to save me from anymore hurt from them. I know I can’t continue avoiding them in my life. An effort has to be made… Of…

  • Rewired

    I heard a podcast talking about how we will rewire our brains to protect ourselves. The words they said definitely hit me hard. My mental health recently has been at an all time low in recent months. I have had to put myself first for a time, and even participating in counseling. Our minds are…

  • Place Holder

    Some days I think of my title as an adoptive mom as a ‘position’. Yep, you heard the word. How could I you even think that you are carrying a position even after you have adopted the children? Well, when you hear the things I have heard from my adopted children then you would understand.…

  • Numb

    Have you ever had a situation come up in your life that completely drained you? You had given all of your mental capacity to it, to where you feel extremely soul-sucked. Where your mental health was suffering and affecting your physical health as well. I had one of those experiences recently. It has taken me…

  • Into the Unknown

    We have three weeks until our oldest is off to moving onto campus. For me, I am super excited for them. They will get to experience something my husband and I have never experienced. For the child making the move though… They are terrified! So much anxiety over this. Constant sick-to-my-stomach days. Fear of the…

  • Fearful

    Our oldest will soon be leaving to move on campus for the first time. Needless to say it will be a time of adjustment for us all. Especially for our adopted sibling children… They have been through a lot together and luckily never had to be split from each other. So what will happen? Things…

  • The day we had been waiting for

    Not to long ago we had another adoption anniversary, our first match visit. This day has been hard for me for a few years now. I remember every detail. I remember all the smiles. I remember all the excitement. Who would have thought, six months later it would be over. We left on a Friday…

  • Recovery

    This past week I had to have a surgery to improve my quality of life. But with a surgery comes recovery. All surgery recoveries differ one to another and I will be down six to eight weeks. Hearing that and accepting this has been the hardest thing. I am not the type of person who…

  • Mind Over Heart

    We received an email a couple weeks ago about updating over adoption home study for the next couple years. I brought this to my husband and we knew we needed to discuss this very important decision. We needed to weigh out all the options of keeping it up or letting it go. Wasn’t going to…

  • The Day We Met

    4 years ago… today. Hard to believe it has already been that long. As we all know time goes by quickly. We always have said in our home it is on hyper speed here with our family. Our eldest just finishing their second year of college and the youngest will complete their Junior year of…