When my social worker wife and I adopted the first 2 kids over 20 years ago, we really had no idea what we were getting into. They were full siblings who had never met each other and each of them had already lived in 6 foster homes. Mariah, the oldest, came to us with a lot of trauma so the transition to being in a real family was very difficult. Adopted kids are always looking for something that is not there and so they face a life that is just difficult to comprehend for the rest of us. Well, Mariah is graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt yesterday and I am so freaking proud of her I just can’t tell you.
I wanted to use the real “f-word” up there but my wife said it would be too inappropriate.
Also we had this wonderful 6 hour drive up there with our darling children. Let me repeat that, 6 hours with my wonderful children in the car.