One Amazing Weekend!

Thank God for Grandparents that are willing to take our 3 crazies and puppy for an entire weekend! I don’t even know where to start with what this past weekend meant to us as a couple and as a family. It all began when our friend Megan went to Blogher in NYC and roomed with another mother named Christine. Through Megan’s posts, I followed a link to Christine’s blog where she talked about the challenges of parenting children who have endured major trauma in their lives (adoption being a part of that) and using Therapeutic Parenting to work towards attachment and linking the thinking and feeling parts of the child’s brain so that they can better process feelings and emotions. As it turned out, Christine was going to be talking at a conference just miles from our house. After reading about the conference, I knew we had to attend and quickly shot off an e-mail to T. He was on-board and so were grandma and grandpa! Yah! Little did I know what the weekend had in store for us when we walked in Saturday morning, cups of coffee in hand, thinking that we were going to learn some great tools to help strengthen our attachment and bond with K. By Sunday afternoon, we had 50 new friends that we had shared our hearts with and they had done the same, we broke down together as the Kleenex box was passed around the room, we built ourselves back up together and realized we all had a strength in us that we never knew was there, we saw the fear in each other and were forced to ask ourselves if adopting a 4 ½ yr old with a rough start would be beyond our capabilities, we saw the hand of God leading us to this weekend and giving us the tools to be better parents, better spouses and better individuals. We left on Sunday, opening the door to beautiful spring weather, the warm sun on our faces, our eyes open and saying in our hearts, “How could we not adopt this precious little girl that by the grace of God will one day be our daughter ! We need to say yes to her as God has said yes to us“ . More to come!