Two years ago this day, I received the call at 8:30am, and received precious photos of my baby girl via email. She was only 28 hours old at the time of the call.
This was after a 11 month wait from the start and AFTER losing 4 referrals from September thus causing me to eat ALOT and gaining an extra 15 lbs. I remember thinking I was never going to be a Mom, and scared because there was talk that Guatemala was going to shut down adoption to singles. Well here we are, two years later and all is well, and almost all the extra pounds are gone too. The journey to Tuki, good friends and family helps in sustaining me through the rough times to my girls in Haiti.
International adoption and/or the trans-racial adoption journey is not easy, nor is it over once they are home. There is so much eduction that needs to occur. Education on so many levels; to me, my kids and the communities surrounding us. Yet some days I am just too tired to want to, but I must, for the sake of my kids.
It is all so WORTH it. The memories of the rough times helps me appreciate when we are in the good times.
This time in waiting for Panda and Cheetah will pass, and soon, in a loooong blink of an eye they will be home too. Mind you, this blink is so long that I and everyone I know thinks I now have a droopy, disabled eye, but it will eventually open and then there they will be, in person on a daily basis.
If you are also waiting for your child(ren) to come home, I urge you to hold on to this thought, they will also be home before you know it, and the WAIT will be a distant memory.
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2 years
Friday, November 30, 2007
The CALL
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5 comments:
When I was first starting (2 1/2 years before Ruby came home) many people said adoption is not for the weak of heart. I didn't get it then but I do now and it's the best thing ever! What a beautiful baby Tuki was and such an amazing little girl now. Congrats on getting to be her mom. :)
Kerri and Ruby
Thank you, I needed that so very very much...!
Thank you for this post. Received news of yet another delay yesterday so I'm really looking forward to that "distant memory" part you mentioned!
Thanks for posting this. I know in retrospect it will seem like a blink of an eye, but sometimes I have no retrospection!(My new word) We will just have to help each other out! BTW I love Tuki's pictures. I love how she looks exactly like herself in both pictures, just grown up in the second one!
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