Attachment

If you know someone who has adopted a child (especially an older child or a child who has spent some of life in an orphanage), give them an extra hug and tell them that they're doing a good job.

Bringing a child into your family after they've experienced abandonment is hard. It's worth it... but it's hard. There are attachment issues to work through. They're exhausting and frustrating and hurtful.... and worth it.

I've heard this song many times before, but last night, someone compared it to the attachment concerns of an adoptive child. 9 years ago, we had a little guy in our home who could have written this song. I had so few tools and so little preparation for the attachment process that we were about to experience. It's only through God (in my opinion) that we made it through the first couple of years.

"I hope that you see right through my walls." I hope we have the opportunity to form an amazing attachment with a new little guy. Four days.