Tag: adoptive mom
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To the Women In My Corner and Giving Yourself Grace Amidst it All
Two years in as an adoptive mom. My daughter is simply brilliant, sometimes I have to step back in the more challenging moments and take account of all she’s been through and how much she’s overcome. In two years our family has been through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows of integrating…
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The Hope for Year 2, After the Fury of Year 1
Hopeful, cautiously optimistic, anxious and every emotion in between. I clenched my jaw as the season turned. I remember it. I remember it well. The scars etched in my brain possibly forever, at least for awhile. Year one was nothing I have ever experienced and nothing I want to go back to. In October of…