Familiaversary
2013-2019
Our beautiful baby girl has been home with us for SIX years. It feels like it was just yesterday. It also feels like she’s always been with us.
In years past we have spent this day celebrating, and doing fun things as a family. Maybe you saw the pictures on Facebook as we posted them, celebrating the day we became a family. We have always ended our night looking back at all of the pictures we took while in Ecuador. We still had work, and school and all of the after school activities, etc. but made extra effort to celebrate the day we met, and became a family of three.
We’ve talked about our Familiaversary for a couple of days. Emilia still refers to it as our EMILIAversary 😍
Unlike in years past, we don’t have any pictures to share for 2019. Today was the third day of a long weekend, due to MLK holiday. Today started with our 10 year old hija waking up on high alert, and pretty dysregulated. She was back asleep by 9:00 for a little morning nap (that doesn’t happen much around here).
There were lots of tears today.
Enough backtalk to last the rest of this year.
Disrespect towards us, and even a brief moment directed at one of our pups.
Really hard time focusing, following directions, staying on track and having good listening ears.
Meltdowns. Lots of meltdowns.
Today’s Familiaversary was also a traumaversary. It was a long, hard day.
But we spent the last few moments of the day, together, as a family. A family brought together by adoption and love. But our union as a family meant that there was a loss early in our baby girl’s life. This loss and grief will be with her forever. It will affect her, always. We are not perfect parents. We won’t always be at our best. But we will always love and support her. Through this, and every stage of her life.
