I am so sad to be leaving without our son Keegan. However it will only be a couple weeks before we can return again and have him forever! I am going to keep this post short (mostly because the van is coming to pick us up soon). I just want to say two very important things.
Kai has really grown during this trip and I think it was an important part of his life journey and understanding his adoption story as well as baby brothers’ adoption story. I am so proud and happy for him and I can’t wait for each and every day with him.
Now that we’ve been through this first trip, Christina and I are very glad this journey has happened exactly the way it has. Perhaps if Keegan was to come home at the age of one we would still have chosen for one trip, but at close to two years old, we are absolutely confident that having this time we just had will be very valuable to all of us throughout the upcoming transitions we are going to have. It’s wonderful to see how strongly bonded his is to his foster mother and while it means there will be some hard grieving it also means he will bond very strongly to all of us. And, it will be much better for him and Kai that we had this time together first followed shortly by us all being together forever.
I could have written that all more eloquently and entertaining for everyone, but all that matters is I said it for now and perhaps I’ll write something better later to ensure our sons really, truly understand how important they are to us and what was going on during this critical part of our lifelong journey.
