My motherhood journey - not what I expected!

Hello everyone,   Please accept my apologies for not having posted in a while. It has been busy with school and I was also recovering from a back injury – my oldest son decided to use my back as a trampoline…   I hope this post finds you well, safe and healthy. We are closer to the end of this pandemic but we still need to wear our masks, practice social distancing and wash our hands.   Ever since we told people we were adopting, we were bombarded with so much advice. Much of it, to be honest, came from people who never adopted. As for those who had, they would tell us about the downfall of adoption and, at times, it was not positive at all.   Don’t get me wrong: advice is great! However, advice is often based on one’s own personal experience. This is problematic because one finds themselves projecting their own experience on the other person – and realistically, you have no idea what the other person is actually going through. So, most of the advice,...

Hello, I hope this post finds you safe and healthy. Even if a vaccine is currently available, remember to do your part to stop the spread of Covid-19! While researching, I came upon a post on the “American Adoptions” blog. The post tackled the wrong reasons to adopt. It is the inspiration for today’s post. No worries, I have linked the post below. I recommend you read it. 1. You want to “save” a baby. At the risk of sounding harsh - you are no hero and this child does not need saving. What a child needs is to be welcomed into a loving home and family to be nurtured and taken care of. I will concede that it can be seen as a selfless act to adopt, but if that is your main motivation – you are not doing this for the right reasons. 2. You feel it’s the only choice you have to grow your family. Okay – how to tackle this one… In our case, we knew becoming parents in the natural way was not an option. That being said, it did not deter us from pursuing o...