A Lesson In Patience As You Wait To Adopt

It has been a long, stressful road. When you chose to adopt you were, in fact, making a life-altering decision. Up to this point, you may have spent countless days, years even, hoping, and longing for a child of your own. You may have cried out of desperation in your quest to conceive. All of these efforts may have felt like they were to no avail, but the reality is that the time that you spent preparing yourself for the birth process, you were actually preparing yourself for the journey of motherhood. Everyone has a path that they will take to parenthood. Adoption is yours, and as you know, it is a process. Whether or not it seems unbearable, you will have to exercise patience as your family progresses through the process.

At times, you will, no doubt, question yourself. You will question those that are working to help you realize your dreams of being a parent. You will wonder if this is the right thing for you to do and, if you will be good at it. But, even as you wonder, your patience may be stretched a bit thin. You have to remember that this is a process, and that it will not happen overnight. It will take time. It may take, what feels like, an eternity. Consider this...the time spent going through the adoption procedures will seem like a drop in a bucket once you have your child in your arms. The hugs that you will share, the moment that you tuck them in bed, the many, many nights that you will care for them, and each time they accomplish something great in their lives, that time will seem miniscule, tiny even. As you watch them grow, when they hit their first home run, or even when you listen to them perform in a school play, that time that you waited will seem like a blink of an eye.

So, hold on. Take solace in knowing that it will soon be over. You will have your child, and then, you will absolutely need patience. But, you will be more confident and, much more able to enjoy your child. You may even be extremely thankful for that time, and proud of how you handled things...a lesson that you will be able to share with your child in years to come.