So tomorrow on July 25th, we are setting off for Kazakhstan again. This time we will merely be there one week. I've really enjoyed the break from blogging and have enjoyed spending time with the girls and having fun swimming while trying to beat the heat (100-111 degree temps).
During the break, I've also checked out several books from the library about adoption. I finished reading 'The Connected Child' and I'm currently reading 'Attaching in Adoption'. I have alot more thoughts and feelings about everything, but one thing is for sure is that this will help me to become a better parent.
Since returning, I have felt like I'm caught between 2 different worlds. There is the really comfortable one where I spend time with the girls, referee their fights, have fun with them, take care of them and then there is the one in a whole other world where I'm jetlagged, eating different foods, hearing a different language, getting to know a little boy who will become our son, living in a different culture with a bunch of strangers.
I'm struggling thinking about all the changes about to happen, changes for us as parents, changes for the girls, changes in our day to day living, but I just wish we could start already. It's agony having everything so drawn out while we wait for bureaucracy to creep along.
3 comments:
Wow! So soon since you had just returned home.
Here's hoping all the best for your upcoming journey and all of the "pains" that it entails. Hope that they are non-too-painful in the end.
Best wishes from our part of the continent and hopes of absolutely no complications.
Wishing you safe an speedy travels and a smooth court appearance. I am sure everything will go great! Looking forward to following along again.
Julie
I am just catching up on the latest blog entries. We felt the same way...hurry up already...let's get this party started! To us going through this process was "A process". It wasn't real life. You will be home soon with your son. That is when it will all start to come together. Coming home to your own turf and being done with "The Process" was a huge relief for us. You will "see" things more clearly. Taking it one day at a time! It will be ok...I promise!
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