NPR posted a story about a US couple, the Parkers, trying to finalize their adoption of 23-month-old twin girls born in Chad (which I didn’t know was open to adoption, but apparently yes). They endured the usual bureaucratic delays and then Covid-19 hit. Someone suggested the couple return to the safety of their home in North Carolina. To which the Parkers replied: “We’d have to abandon our daughters here. And that is something that we are not willing to do.”
Oh my heart. Yes. Because that’s something I think many people “outside” the adoption world don’t understand. The children we’re adopting become “our children” the second we sign the first document. When we first lay eyes on their photos. The moment we first hold our precious sons and daughters in our arms.
Sending positive thoughts to the Parkers, their twins and their biological son, and to everyone affected by Covid-19, directly or indirectly, which means the whole world, all of us.
Stay safe, everyone. xoxo
PS: The photo is of my husband Tim and me with our son, Mateo, in 2005.
