I’m a little late in sharing this (it was published last Friday), but it is still worth a read. My wife has another post on the Dayton Moms Blog and it gives a little peek into our journey of being a blended family.
Before we added to our family through adoption, we took on the challenge of blending a family of three boys and one girl spaced out from elementary school through a new high school graduate. Like most families, this was new territory for us and we faced a few challenges. Cheryl writes about that in her post.
I joked with her that her post makes me sound smarter than I really am, but I loved her honesty in this particular paragraph:
He told me to be patient and that was so hard. I wanted an instant family, I wanted you to just fit right into our family with my kids, and that was so selfish of me. Being patient was hard, but oh the wonderful things I was able to see and observe in that time. I watched you grow and mature from a distance.
Take a few minutes to read the letter on the Dayton Moms Blog. Hopefully it will be an encouragement to you or allow you to encourage someone else facing a similar journey.
Thoughts from a Hoosier Fan in the Buckeye Land 