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If today wasn’t going to be stressful enough it was made just that little bit more excruciating with the fact that our social worker, Denise, insisted on talking about the day on a very busy train...
View ArticleMeeting our children's birth mum
We had been asked by Tanya and Gloria, the children’s social workers, if we would consider meeting with Lauren, their birth mum. Having already discussed this with Denise, our social worker, we knew...
View ArticleA Year of Blogs
Almost exactly a year ago today I posted my first blog. In it I talked about growing up in a large family and how I always wanted my own children. At that point we’d started the adoption process only...
View ArticleThe First 100 Days
Today marks 100 days since Duckling and Gosling were placed with us and so it felt like a suitable time to come back to my blog which has been abandoned somewhat since their arrival. And what a...
View ArticleThe Adoptive Parent School Alliance
This morning I had coffee with six mums (I’m getting used to being the only dad around) who all have adopted children at Ducking’s school. It was all very jovial as we swapped stories about our kids...
View ArticleIntroduction Books, Toys and DVDs
Ever since Duckling and Gosling have been in the care of the local authority their social worker has explained to them that her job is to ‘find a special family for them to live with’. On the day she...
View ArticleWhen reality hits...
The realisation that all was not well has been slowly creeping up on me for quite a few weeks now. It started when Denise, our wonderful social worker, suggested we didn’t submit our adoption order...
View ArticleWhen the floodgates really open...
In last week’s blog I wrote “I’m not a cryer...but this morning the floodgates opened, and five months and two weeks of ignoring the truth poured forth. I feel better for it”. How wrong I was. As the...
View ArticleLoving my children
Twice in the last few weeks I’ve been struck by different thoughts about parental love. Like many adopters, I’ve been told countless times that all my children need to make them ‘better’ is love and...
View ArticleThe Easter holiday
So we survived the Easter holidays - and actually I’d go as far to say we did pretty well, the secret being (I think) that we kept the whole holiday pretty low key. The first week was filled with...
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