How They Grow
It's just amazing how quickly children grow, isn't it? I remember my daddy always telling me that when I was little and I didn't get it. It felt like I would be a kid forever! But here I am almost 6 years into being a mommy and now I get it. My babies are growing up. And I get that 5 years from now I'll look back at them as 5 and 6 year (and 14 month) olds and think how tiny they were in 2006.
Sometimes I hear the rhetorical question from adoptive parents, "Why does it have to be so hard to adopt?" I ask it too. I think most of us do at some point. But in my heart I know that all of the hardness of this journey ends in me NEVER taking my child for granted. I just can't. I worked too hard to get them here. And in Samren's case we worked really hard to KEEP him here (he was so sick as an infant/toddler). No. I will never regret or wish away one moment I have with my children. All of the hours and days and months of waiting for them and missing them won't allow me to.
I look forward to a time when all of the ache in my heart for Bright is a memory. I look forward to next Christmas when I will be missing him no longer (Lord willing). I look forward to having all of my children under one roof...making messes and noise and memories TOGETHER.
Love,
Anita
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