Clearly blogging is not my thing, but
here's an update for the blog!
Little Miss Rayla is an amazing ray of
sunshine! I couldn't have asked for an easier little kid. Actually,
she's convinced me that I should never have another child, because
she's the most perfect child in the world and I couldn't possibly be
this lucky twice.
That's not true. I really don't feel
that anything about our family is “special”. Dan and I are just
normal people with normal jobs. Our house is a mess, our cars always
are late for their oil changes and we stress about our mortgage
payments, just like everyone else. Rayla is just a typical 3 year
old from an Eastern European orphanage. She has significant delays
in her development, which she would not have had she been born here.
Back to my point. I look at my baby
girl and see perfection! I love everything about her. I see all the
things she can do and all the potential she has. I actually have to
think really hard to come up with a list of negatives, because I just
don't see them. What's my point... my point is that she's my kid and
everyone feels this way about their own kids. We are not unique.
Most people I know, outside of the
international adoption family, think we did something “special.”
Nope, nothing special here. I'm uncomfortable with the “wow, you
have big hearts,” or “you are doing gods work,” or “that's
amazing, I could never do that” comments. I think most people in
this “family” are, and that's why we tend to stick together,
because we don't have to endure living on the pedestal.
Quite frankly, inside the IA family, we
are down right boring. We are a married couple with 1 child, who
only has DS, no other major health issues, who came out of a “baby
house” with only minimal malnutrition and neglect. On the spectrum
of adoptions, we are the least impressive!
So let me sum this up... we are normal
boring people, who did nothing special, and as a result, we are the
proudest parents ever of the most perfect baby girl in the world!
My question is... why doesn't everybody
do this??? If every normal boring family just adopted 1 kid, there
wouldn't be any more amazing babies dying in orphanages. Every
family would then have the most perfect child in the world in their
very own home! Seems simple to me! :)
