Two years.

It has really snuck up on us.  Orange has been home for almost 2 years (WOW!) so it is time for us to submit our 2 year post placement report to Ethiopia.  In Ethiopia, a post placement report is required at 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months by the home study agency social worker.  After that, we are required to submit a post placement report to Ethiopia every year on the anniversary of the day we took her into our custody (or some such wording, cannot remember) up through her 18th birthday.  Her annual date for this is the end of November for us, and we have to have it completed and submitted to our adoption agency (AGCI for our Ethiopian adoption) one month in advance.  Which is in a week and a half!  So, I am kind of scrambling because this caught me a little off guard with all that has been happening lately (Haitian adoption, getting ready for my brother’s wedding, Rosemary starting school, etc).  But, it is a joy to tell Ethiopia about Orange.

We are heading out for a mini-vaca (just hubs and I!!!!!!…first time in 6 years) at 5 in the morning tomorrow, so I will finish our report when we return.  This is the first time that we (hubs and I) have both been away from Orange at the same time.  She and Rosemary will be with their Mimi and friends and will have a lot of fun things to do…but I still worry.  I wonder what will go through her head.  Will she be secure…knowing that we will return…and maybe just sad because she misses us?  Or…is she now at an age where she will tap in to past feelings of abandonment….and those fears will remind her of a much greater fear that she had not so long ago?  Please keep her in your thoughts while we are away.  This is a very big deal.  And my mama’s heart is already aching for her.  She is a very attached little girl who is confident and flexible.  And I know that hubs and I *need* this time together (ya know, cause life can get hard sometimes).  So it is the right thing to do.  But that doesn’t make it easy.

10/20/11 UPDATE!…We are back and we had suuuuuch a good time.  It was so nice to reconnect with the hubs and have so much time to relax and talk.  Orange and Rosemary did very well at home with their Mimi.  They cried a little at night for us, but nothing unexpected.  I am so proud of Orange since this was the first time we both have not been with her.  She had many safety nets…being in her own home, being with her sister, and with her Mimi (who lives in a mother-in-law suite connected to our home)…so she was very comfortable and secure.  And I finished our 2 yr post-placement report!  What a time to reflect on how much Orange has grown and changed over the past 2 yrs.  I’ll try to post more on that another day (it’s hard for me to determine what to share publicly and what not to share…so I get stuck not writing anything…so I am working on this).   Also, will post soon about our Haitian adoption process. 

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