It’s a couple of years since I started with the concept, mapping out the ideas after a great Safebase® training course following our adoption. Since then I was tweaking and re-drafting the story, dealing with cancer and a stem cell transplant, the loss of my Mum but after all of that and a renewed focus and love for the story the books are finally here! I can’t believe how amazing they look. So colourful, so bright and the story really comes to life. My boys have both read

“When we make Play the foundation of learning, we teach the Whole child.” ~ Vince Gowmon Who wishes that we had more time to play with our family? More time to connect and more time to just enjoy each other?  I know I always have.  Whilst we try and fit this in when we can, very easily the stresses and strains of daily life can get in the way.  Now, more than ever,  we want our children to feel loved, centred, supported and protected and we have found that play allows for thi

The rollercoaster has picked up speed and it is now already one week since the boys first came to stay at our house.  This is just a quick update for those of you who have been asking as well as my first chance to sit in front of my laptop for 14 days. My wonderful husband has offered to make tea tonight as well as bath time for both boys, providing me with a much needed escape to the upper loft room for an hour. Introductions started on 31 January and within eight days they

So it’s been a while since my last update.  The light at the end of the tunnel is shining bright and is calling us.  It’s not the end destination but actually the start of another journey and the most important part of the journey!  We are within spitting distance of our lives being enriched and changed and everything that we have worked for so far is starting to add up and make sense. Having been in the process formally since January, working through stage one and stage two,

It’s been ten agonising weeks since we met the boys, having felt like we had formed the four corners of the puzzle and that these four corners, representing  each of the four of us were solid and firm.  We are now full steam ahead with starting to fill in the rest of the picture and this is only driving our desire, hunger, excitement and feelings that this was meant to happen with these boys and that the end is in sight. As mentioned earlier, we were linked back in November w

The emotional tap is definitely switched on and flowing…..  Is this really like being pregnant? So, I mentioned previously how the emotions were heightened and boy is that true.  I can say the emotional tap is definitely flowing right now and I can’t see how it will turn off anytime soon.  I have always been someone who was not afraid to show their emotions but this is like something else! Have had a wonderful week catching up with friends, colleagues and loved ones and this

So we have been in the process for some time now, stage one and two completed and we were approved to become adopters in September 2016. At the same time we were looking at profiles of siblings and we were constantly being drawn back to these two brothers.  I don’t know why but there was something that kept drawing us back to them, their cheeky smiles, their story. Something was there, a real connection – but then we kept asking ‘ how can you get all that from just some pictu