Sadly, it has been 9 months since our referral. In even our "worst case" scenarios, we expected to be home with the girls by now.
The last few weeks have been increasingly difficult as we know the girls are growing older without us. We are blessed to have all the support that we have but we also want the girls to feel that support and start making friends and meeting cousins and that kind of thing already...
So, what did we do on this referral-versary? We went to a parenting class. It was a course/seminar based on the Neufeld Attachment parenting style (not sure if that's the correct way to state that :) ). We both found it very interesting, and will definitely apply some of what we learned to our parenting style. I'm also hoping to finish the book I started reading a while back, "Holding on to your kids", at the suggestion by one of our friends who has also adopted.
Thank you all for the prayers. Hopefully the next post will be a celebratory one!
Yay on the Neufeld class and book, guys!! I'm guessing that I'm the mysterious "friend" you referred to??!! I tell you, the Neufeld stuff has been invaluable to me in parenting our two ET-born kids...and our Canada-born one, too.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm so sorry that you're still living out your worse-than-worst-case scenario. This truly does suck, and I can't believe you're caught in all of this. The roller-coaster WILL come to an end, but I know it's gotta be brutal at this point.
I too hope that the next post is one of celebration.
Blessings and courage, friends.
R