The story so far. The story will be continued.
Bringing the good news from London to Leicester. Adoption Day.
27/10/2014Jah feeling vulnerable. The lost tooth.
17/11/2014We have now arrived at the moment where Jah has been officially adopted. Unsurprisingly, this is not the end of the story. It is simply a new beginning. Adoption is for life.
Jah himself has asked me not to write much about his teenage years. I don’t think many of us would want much written about ours either, so naturally I shall respect that. ( I hope he will allow me to write about one of his best memories – the School Journeys. We’ll see.)
My next blog post will return to our everyday life.
In the meantime, I have just realised via Twitter that this is National Adoption week. There are so many interesting and inspiring life-stories mentioned on the website of BAAF (British Adoption and Fostering), that I would encourage people to have a read. See http://www.baaf.org.uk/blog
The pictures I can offer this week are of a little red case and a sunflower – and then an image of carrying on to face the future. 
THE SUITCASE looks exactly like the tiny one Jah brought with him when he moved into our house, our family and our life. As I have mentioned before, it contained just a few clothes. His foster family had thoughtfully decided that it would be better for us to get him his new clothes as he grew. He didn’t need to bring many with him. Life would move on.
A SUNFLOWER. When Jah moved into our family, aged 3 years and 11 months, he brought with him a little present for us. It was a rather straggly sunflower seedling. He watered it and tended it and by the end of the summer, it had grown stronger and produced a healthy flower. I like the image.
FACING THE FUTURE. Now that Jah officially shared the family surname we faced the future together. To be continued.
