Adoption

Practical Aspects of an Integrated Life

Posted on June 8, 2007. Filed under: Adoption, awareness, foster care, personal thoughts, Self Awareness |

I haven’t been posting.  I know I am stating the obvious!

Instead, I have been working on integrating my life.

What does that mean?

Well, for starters, it means learning to live as a single mom to a toddler during the week while my hubby works out of town. We’re in the foster/adoption game, which is a whole integration nightmare in itself. I can’t speak to this situation yet due to privacy and legal issues, but more info will be forthcoming after the trial in July.

Integrating a new special being that walks and talks (more everyday) and keeps going when you say, “stop!” has been a big transition to say the least. I wouldn’t change it for the world, but it is quite a change for a thirty-something self-employed professional woman! My business has been put on hold while we worked on increasing attachment.  Now, we are firmly attached and hubby is moving home in 8 days to parent with me! (He got a new job locally–yay!)  My plan is to finish this summer the work I started before precious baby joined my life–my new emphasis in solely coaching children and the www.morethantutors.com directory due to launch at the end of August.

Also, I am going to write a bit more personally on this blog, interspersed with professional articles, while I wait for my colleagues to clear their schedules and join in the writing venture. Instead of having many separate blogs (this isn’t product promotion afterall…) which only makes life more complicated, MOST of it will happen here.

Other aspects of integration that are happening in my life involve the healing of my body and soul.  More on all that later.