a different kind of adoption update.

As we inch ever closer to Tippi coming home, our to-do list seems to grow and become more pressing. At the top of it though is time with our boys. We are all so excited for their little sister to be home, but we recognize there are so many unknowns and life is going to look very different. On top of her medical needs, the impact of trauma on Tippi will be profound. She is not with her biological mother. She has spent her entire life in a notoriously bad orphanage. To her we are strangers, taking her away from the only life she knows. We don’t speak her language. Every part of our life will be foreign to her. It’s easy to think she will be too young to remember any of this, but #thebodykeepsthescore and the impact of all of this will have changed her brain and have life long impacts. The fairytale adoption story is one of the lucky child being rescued by the savior family. But the reality is that there has been no luck in her short life, only loss, and it is us who are the lucky ones to have the huge privilege of being chosen to be her family. Children belong in families, and although we wish Tippi’s story had played out differently, we are forever grateful to be the ones who get to love and care for her, and to help her continue writing it. ♡ ☾