Tag: Adoption

  • Mother’s Day, so what!

    Growing up I was so looking forward to celebrating Mother’s Day as a Mom. I had so many exceptations of what this day would look like. Breakfast in bed. Kids running and jumping on my bed giving me hugs and kisses. Just love and adoration. The reality of this day is nothing like I dreamed.…

  • Resentment

    Resentment is like a cancer! The majority of us know how cancer goes. It’s a disease that starts out microscopically, as a single-mutated cell. Then the cells begin dividing and multiplying. It grows steadily. Until it consumes a body leading to death. I believe resentment to be very similar. Let me try to explain it…

  • Adoption Anniversary

    February is our journey anniversary but March is our adoption anniversary. Last month I wrote on our match with a sister and brother from Missouri, well that match didn’t work out. Adoption disruptions do happen for many reasons, we won’t get into that today. Six months after our adoption disruption we were matched with another…

  • Liar Liar

    At what age would you say as a parent you began experiencing lying from your child? 2-3 years old? 6-8 years old? We didn’t get to experience lying until our children were in their teens, since that is the age we adopted them. Even then they didn’t choose to start lying with us until a…

  • Self-Care

    Self-care… What do you think of when you hear those words? Lots of people think of these words as a sign of weakness. I believed this myself. Is it truly a weakness though to take care of yourself? This past year has been the hardest of my life. We are still a long way from…

  • Journey Anniversary

    February has always been kind of an anniversary month for us. It’s the month we chose to tell all of our family and friends of our decision to adopt. So many mixed emotions come with thinking back to when we told our immediate family. Excitement and fear. The excitement knowing hubs and I were going…

  • Contentment

    When you invite a couple teenagers to come be apart of your family through adoption, a lot of baggage will come too. Was our plan to adopt teens? Well we said we would on the paperwork we filled out for the state. Did we actually expect to get teens, no. A lot of things just…

  • The war against trauma

    Why will one go back to what they are used to living in? Why choose sadness? Why choose uncertainty? Why choose pain? Why choose lies? Why choose death? Why choose alienating yourself? Why choose loneliness? Why choose restlessness? Why choose anger? Why choose unforgiveness? Why choose isolation? Why choose avoidance? Why choose unsafe places? Why…