Week 5

Well, here I am just a few days away from what I hope will be the last Christmas we will have without our children.

We have dressed the house and I have had a practice run for next year at trimming our children's tree. It is a little tree and I have put lots of small cuddly toy people on it like Mary and Joseph and the three kings and lots of different cute angels, oh and a mini cat and fairy for good measure! I'm really pleased with it and can't wait for our children to see it.

Yesterday I spoke to Patrick and there is still very little news, although I have to ring him tomorrow after he has had the chance to check with another local authority about a sibling group. Its hard for me not to be excited at this thought but I dare not let myself in case it turns out that the children aren't available or are not at the appropriate stage yet for adoption. So, I am calmly waiting until tomorrow when I will hopefully know a little more (I am sure I sound calmer than I feel !!!!)

I am so glad that Christmas is nearly here and that this year is nearly at an end. I am conscious at the moment that the likelihood of anything happening before Christmas is very little and so I want to let that New Year in and feel hopeful for a new family life and a fresh start full of hope.

This Christmas has made me think about all the children there are in the world that will not have a happy christmas for one reason or another. Those who have left birth parents and not found their forever family and those who are still with biological family members and suffering from abuse or neglect. It is a sad world for so many children; thank goodness we live in a country which has a system able to bring forever families together.

When I toast this New Year in I will be thinking of those children and of the wonderful adopted parents who will love and cherish them one day soon and I will silently ask that this happens as quickly as possible for all of us.

Till the New Year, may you all have a wonderfully Happy Christmas and a New Year filled with joy.

Talk to you in 2004.

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