This feels surreal. After all of the months / years of waiting I can't believe we are counting down to days (DAYS) until we meet the kids for the first time & bring them home. :)
We will leave home on February 28 & overnight in Miami. February 29 we are off to Cap Haitien bright & early and will finally meet the kids.
We will spend four nights at the O spoiling / getting to know our kids & loving on all the rest of the babies.
March 4 we will fly to PAP & then hop a flight to Montreal. We will spend one night in Montreal & will head home our family united on March 5.
I can't wait to get home & get on with real life, my new reality.
Please keep my babies in your prayers as their whole world is turned upside down.
The count down is on 14 days to go..................
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Welcome to my life - take two
After months & months of staying in the background - reading & enjoying other's blogs, I have finally decided to participate more actively by setting up my own blog.
My intent is to use this as a sounding board for myself; as well as to document my life, adoption, trial and tribulations of raising a second family as an older single mom to two little ones.
I hope to be able to print this journal out at some point & save it for my "Haitian Angels" so they understand the emotional journey that I experienced as I waited & longed for them to be home with me. At some point hopefully in the not so distance future this will switch to my emotional & mental banterings once we have met - virtual strangers thrust together as an instant family, as we grow to love & trust one another.
My kids being stripped of their normal - language, food, culture, climate, the orphange that is the only home they have ever known, as well as their friends & nannies who have loved & cared for them during this long wait, will grieve for all they have lost - as I celebrate being united. It will be a sad symphony we will play as we get everyone settled into their new roles, lives & establish a new normal for all of us. I just hope their little hearts & souls are being prepared for the changes they will experience & their new family that loves them & has waited months / years for them to finally come home. I am overwhelmed with love for these little guys & trying to reconcile my joy during their grief leaves me torn.
Disclaimer:
This journey into my private life may not always have story book happy endings. I want to document my truth & not just see the world through rose colored glasses. You may not agree with my ramblings or observations but please this is a personal journey of my heart & my experiences - so we will have to agree to disagree on what I feel & observe.
Welcome to my life - take two. Laur
My intent is to use this as a sounding board for myself; as well as to document my life, adoption, trial and tribulations of raising a second family as an older single mom to two little ones.
I hope to be able to print this journal out at some point & save it for my "Haitian Angels" so they understand the emotional journey that I experienced as I waited & longed for them to be home with me. At some point hopefully in the not so distance future this will switch to my emotional & mental banterings once we have met - virtual strangers thrust together as an instant family, as we grow to love & trust one another.
My kids being stripped of their normal - language, food, culture, climate, the orphange that is the only home they have ever known, as well as their friends & nannies who have loved & cared for them during this long wait, will grieve for all they have lost - as I celebrate being united. It will be a sad symphony we will play as we get everyone settled into their new roles, lives & establish a new normal for all of us. I just hope their little hearts & souls are being prepared for the changes they will experience & their new family that loves them & has waited months / years for them to finally come home. I am overwhelmed with love for these little guys & trying to reconcile my joy during their grief leaves me torn.
Disclaimer:
This journey into my private life may not always have story book happy endings. I want to document my truth & not just see the world through rose colored glasses. You may not agree with my ramblings or observations but please this is a personal journey of my heart & my experiences - so we will have to agree to disagree on what I feel & observe.
Welcome to my life - take two. Laur
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