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A We Are Family member shares how being open to help from others has been important on their adoption journey.
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The following blog was written by a We Are Family member and adoptive parent of ‘Angel’. It is taken, with permission, from her own blog Riding Waves with Angel and is the first in a series of blogs we will be sharing by this member.
I hope I don’t need to worry about offending any singles by doing a Valentine’s post here, because WAFers are most definitely with someone. In fact, our lack of aloneness can feel rather unrelenting at times – consider little fists hammering on the loo door. But being together was what we wanted and worked very hard to get.
Adopters seem to me to be a particularly squeezed segment of the squeezed generation. Often older parents, they soon care not only for their new child(ren) but also their ailing and aging parents. I’ve been observing this from a safe distance. Marvelling at the resilience and strength of these adopters.
We were told that our adoptive lives would be a rollercoaster ride, weren’t we? My day started on a dizzy high, and now I’m sitting here feeling like I’ve been turned inside out.
I had the pleasure of sharing my birthday with you this month, but it was tinged with equal joy and sadness.
