ActiveRainPhotoBloggerContest Sleeping Beauty Safe and Peaceful
This is my youngest daughter Sierra.
We traveled half the way around the world to find her in the "small" farming community of Yueyang, Hun'an, China. Left in a small basket, on the morning she was born, at the doorstep of the town cinder block factory, her mother knew there would be half the town arriving soon to find her.
She was well cared for in a foster home for the first 10 months of her life. During that time we were told she spent most of her days with the father of her foster mom. We have had a special bond since the first day we met. When given to my wife and I, she would let only me hold, feed and bathe her for the first week. This was quite the opposite from my experience with my first daughter who was from a Vietnamese orphanage. For the first few months of HER life, she had NEVER seen a man before. Sierra cried whenever my wife entered the room and only I could calm her. This broke my wife's heart a bit, as she was the one who spearheaded the whole "let's get a sister" for Madison plan.
About that..... Initially, I was all, why would we want to do that? Things are just perfect the way they are now. There was no need for a change. One is enough. Could I have been more WRONG???? The answer to that rhetorical question is no I could not have been more wrong. I cannot imagine a day in my life without her, either of them for that matter. I honestly do not recall the time before we became parents to these two .
Without my girls, my life would be spent on shameless self indulgence. I've had more than enough time to do that years ago. Nothing grounds a person like the responsibility of parenthood.
There are few things in this life more important to me than the peaceful safety of my children.
ActiveRainPhotoBloggerContest Sleeping Beauty Safe and Peaceful
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