We adopted two brothers who we knew to be part of a sibling group of 5.
We were later to discover that in fact there was an additional, older half sister (paternal), as she lived with her mother she had nothing to do with social services or indeed us.
Our daughter has not been with us for very long and my first conversation with her happened unexpectedly on Christmas Day.
Here it is! Everything you ever wanted to know about the blog in 2015!
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I think it’s fair to say I am not this year’s festive favourite! The reason being we have decided to try and have the Christmas we want for ourselves and…
How could I have known just how much emotion it could contain? How could I have prepared myself for the sheer pleasure and intimacy of something so simple? How could…
I was thinking about my grandson recently (as I so often do) and decided to “strike while the iron’s hot” and put pen to paper so here goes… When I…
I was at a meeting of fellow adopters and was surprised to hear a parent say how unhappy they were that their child’s school had outed them as being adopted….
Why adoption?
I was volunteering in an orphanage (we adopted from Russia) and simply fell head over heels for one of the babies. Hadn’t thought about it before, was definitely not part of the plans my then fiancé and I had talked about but when it happened out of the blue and so completely we just knew it was the only thing we wanted to do.
Why adoption?
We felt we had such a lot of joy in our lives that it would be good to share that with children who perhaps didn’t; I never felt an overwhelming need to be a biological parent.
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