Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Those Early Moments
Being an adoptive parent, one of the hardest things is missing those "early moments." When you bring in and/or adopt a child who is "older" in any way you most often miss out on baby pictures, baby "firsts", etc and as the child gets older those become harder and harder to miss.
Many times kids have school assignments about being a baby whether that be bringing in a baby picture and "guessing the baby", or doing a growth chart through pictures, or the dreaded family tree. I first encountered this with Olivia when she was in kindergarten and was asked to do one of those "growth charts" from baby to now (at only age 5). Since she came to live with me at 3 1/2, we didn't have a lot of change in pictures. I gave her some options such as a random online picture, drawing a baby picture, etc but she wanted to just use what we had. It's been hard to have missed those moments and not even have pictures to share with her or others.
This week I was granted a huge blessing. Someone Olivia and I met while on our two week visit to Haiti has been going to Macy's orphanage over the years since she arrived at age one, and shared some great pictures with us of her! These are such a treasure and will be even more important as time goes by and she is home with us.
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Many times kids have school assignments about being a baby whether that be bringing in a baby picture and "guessing the baby", or doing a growth chart through pictures, or the dreaded family tree. I first encountered this with Olivia when she was in kindergarten and was asked to do one of those "growth charts" from baby to now (at only age 5). Since she came to live with me at 3 1/2, we didn't have a lot of change in pictures. I gave her some options such as a random online picture, drawing a baby picture, etc but she wanted to just use what we had. It's been hard to have missed those moments and not even have pictures to share with her or others.
This week I was granted a huge blessing. Someone Olivia and I met while on our two week visit to Haiti has been going to Macy's orphanage over the years since she arrived at age one, and shared some great pictures with us of her! These are such a treasure and will be even more important as time goes by and she is home with us.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Needing to Catch Up
Summer is here FINALLY! But I have neglected this blog for WAY too long with end of the year "stuff" going on at school and work.
Our summer vacation this year has been in the works for over two years now and I can't believe it's actually come and gone. Back then my mom and I discussed taking the kids (and ourselves!) on a Disney cruise. She has always dreamed of going on a cruise and I was sure one would most likely not be in our future cost wise. She generously was giving me a portion of money at the time and I suggested that we take out some to use on a cruise together and I would put the rest toward our adoption, which we did. So just over a year ago we planned and booked our cruise, to take place in June of 2014 (which seemed so very far away!) At the time we had had Macy's referral for a few months so she was booked alongside the rest of us and it was extremely bittersweet to say the least to have to remove her from our booking since of course she isn't home yet.
Nevertheless we had a wonderful time! Here are a few glimpses into the dream that our Disney cruise was for us...
Our summer vacation this year has been in the works for over two years now and I can't believe it's actually come and gone. Back then my mom and I discussed taking the kids (and ourselves!) on a Disney cruise. She has always dreamed of going on a cruise and I was sure one would most likely not be in our future cost wise. She generously was giving me a portion of money at the time and I suggested that we take out some to use on a cruise together and I would put the rest toward our adoption, which we did. So just over a year ago we planned and booked our cruise, to take place in June of 2014 (which seemed so very far away!) At the time we had had Macy's referral for a few months so she was booked alongside the rest of us and it was extremely bittersweet to say the least to have to remove her from our booking since of course she isn't home yet.
Nevertheless we had a wonderful time! Here are a few glimpses into the dream that our Disney cruise was for us...
(Yes, I celebrated my special day on board the ship!)
(A blogger-turned-real-life friend and her daughter went on the same cruise!
We had a blast!)
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