Expectations
We are welcoming September with wide open arms because this is the month that we will MEET OUR DAUGHTER!!! That is right... for those of you who have gotten behind on our journey, just like I have on these blog posts, we are traveling this month!!! We have 20 days until we will cross oceans to meet a little girl who we have fallen madly in love with through pictures. It's amazing how you can love someone you've never met with your whole heart. With being so very close to meeting S, I wanted to take some time to talk about expectations. When we first started our journey of special needs adoption, we were faced with all sorts of reactions. Parenting a child with an intellectual disability by CHOICE is considered absurd to some people. These individuals couldn't believe that we were choosing "this life." To them "this life" consisted of giving up our future, our dreams, our money, our freedom and gaining all things hard and scary... and for wha...
