Arrivals

I have still not managed to upload photos and will learn one day!

I am sitting here pondering over the last 11 years as it is the annieversary of Hope arriving in our family; it is also her 13th birthday. My baby is a teenager!!!
The past 11 years with Hope have been nothing if not eventful with stays in hospital too many to count, several major operations and 3 times when I sat at her hospital bedside praying she would survive (1 time included an emergency dash from our local hospital to a major children's hospital).
Hope came into our family as the "unplanned" child --if you can have such when you adopt! My first 3 children I went looking for but Hope found us. Never will I forget meeting her for the first time, never will I forget the traumatic 10 days spent in an hotel with 3 children -one of whom has SMS-and never will I forget the day she eventually arrived. She was meant to be in my house around 3pm but it was after 7 when this sweat drenched, screaming scrap of humanity arrived.
Hope was 2 weighed under 7kgs and was the size of a 9month old; it is all thanks to her foster parents that she made it to her forever home. Now Hope is a thriving teenager who loves life; she has a wicked sense of humour and a simple stub of your towe with an ouch has her in fits of laughter!
Hope has taught me a lot about life and about myself; life without her would be so different.

Love you Hope.xxx