Although I am saddened by the path my children had to take to become ours, I am and will forever be grateful to their family for making the tough decisions they did-for allowing their children to leave their loving arms and find mine/ours. Their Birth family and Adoptive families hearts all ache over their journey but rejoice and are excited about their new path.
With this closure has also come the decision to end this blog. The focus of our lives is no longer on "adoption" but that of becoming a family and the ordinary challenges that go with it. Together we are working and teaching our children to lead productive and happy lives-with any hope that will be through example. We will continue to balance their Ethiopian heritage and their American Citizenship. Our adoption was complete a year and 6 months ago. Sometimes it seems like yesterday-but mostly it feels like an eternity ago- a lifetime ago. The first year was difficult-more difficult than I ever imagined it would be- and it is still challenging. But eventually, somehow- we became parents and our children also worked hard and are now very much our little Ethio-American children.
Our life will likely take on the form of a new blog-full of adventure and unexpected twists and turns along with the expected ones- when I figure it out I'll post the link for a week before closing the blog officially.
Thank you to all of you who have followed us through this trying and exciting time of our life!
Hugs, Peace and Love to you all,
Kimberly, Denis, Habtamu, Debritu and Geneva...
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3 comments:
I will miss your blog! Make sure to give us the new blog address!
xoxo
Congrats on celebrating a year as family! It is great you had the opportunity to learn more about their birth families.
Well, we've had a very busy month and I missed this post. If you do continue blogging and are sharing the address I would love the blog address.
Best wishes to you and yours!
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