Bonus picture at the end!!
The week I spent with Mallory was incredible. I was really nervous leading up to the visit because it seemed like a Mythbusters episode was about to occur. Our time spent together up to that point had been very much orchestrated and generally supervised. This visit was going to give Mallory the first real glimpse into my life – my life as a mom to two other girls and wife to someone other than her birthfather. Not that I had any thought that she assumed me to lead an exciting life but the fact that I was just another person would be revealed. Would her seeing the girls eating Pop Tarts, as a meal – not just breakfast either, be a total letdown, would the fact that we sit home and do nothing bore her to tears? Both she and I share a shy nature and we have this goofy way of thinking that we assume by asking a question, we would be prying because ‘if they wanted me to know that, they would tell me’ and yet we never know what the other person might be thinking or want to know.
Vindauga: We are an adoption triad, Noelle speaks-
Thanks for this and the previous link. I HAVE to add Lisa V to my blogroll. I should have done it years ago, in fact…