Adventures in Parenthood

Oh Boy I am not a very good blogger and so thankful for all the other blogger moms who have helped me on my journey. Well it has been just six months that we have two preschoolers in our family ! I am not going to share any pictures to keep things confidential and we certainly did shout it out when we decided to go forward. We are so blessed and very happy but it has been a very challenging and emotional few months. Wow it certainly is a lift changer for us but just what we were hoping for. We found out May 23 that we were a match for a sibling pair a boy( 4) and girl ( 2). We deceided for sure to go forward May 25 and meet the children on June 7 ! It is so hard to describe how it feels to be waiting in a hotel room waiting for the Social Workers to come to our room with the children. It was such a sureal experience and as much as I like to live in the moment I could not truly process the intense emotions till much later ! It is true what they say that kids are resilient! They are so brave and so happy to have each other during the transition. We did a quick transistion and came home a few days later. They both had some grief over leaving foster parents and unfortunately we don't have and openness agreement that includes visits and we did not meet the foster parents. This makes me sad but I trust the social workers decisions. Mr. Man took some time to open up and is still challenging but little princess was a little doll from the start and very willing to please. However her willinings to please also worries me a bit ! In my readings kids either handle transistion in one of two ways and they both are doing one of each do different approaches and for each. Well I thought I was prepared by doing lots of reading on positive parenting and positive discipline. Soo much more challening to put into practice. I know I know the books can be crazy but I wanted to be prepared. My biggest challenge is that I tend to try to be the best I can be in everything I do and pretty confident even in new challenges. This new challenge of parenthood has really rocked me to my core with such intense emotions and wanting to ensure I am doing things to ensure they learn manners, and are kind and gentle little souls. Piperdog is adjusting OK and they both love dogs so this has been great and they are great little hikers. We get out each day for playground or walk in the woods. Blaise and I are still trying to balance some time for us but that has been tricky but we definitely try to keep each other a priority. So all in all the change has been good and it really has only been 6 months ! WOW We are so blessed and looking forward to celebrating and starting new tranditions. Trying to balance Baby Jesus teaching and Santa is so tricky. We are taking the kids to church and saying prayers it is so interestig to see how open they are to knowing their is a loving GOD who loves them just the way they are !! I am not sure if I will continue to write but I will keep this open for a while. Must go back to watching the old animated show| Santa Clause is coming to town " they enjoyed the Grinch,littel miss " Ah he grew BIG heart and turned nice , what a nice Grinch " LOL Looking forwrd to our new Journey of Parenthood Oh I did survivie the half marathon with a bad knee and did a great 16km and hobbled for the last 5 km with a time fo 2: 45. I am still trying to run at least once a week and have done a few 10 K races. I am so happy I did the half marathon when I did and look forward to my runs. Little miss says " when I am a bigger girl I am going to run with you mommy to get exercise and be fit and strong ! Cheers Karen