Mike and I just finished reading Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control, a book that our agency sent us after Colombia asked for more specifics of how we were preparing ourselves to adopt a teenager. It was actually a very enlightening book, one that I'm glad we read. It opened our eyes to a lot of what we've seen through Julian over the last three years and helped us to understand him in a new way. Now we're taking an online course on Adopting the Older Child Internationally. We're a little over half way through the course, and it, too, has been very interesting and helpful. Once again, already knowing and living with Julian made the course much more real. It has kept us from going into this blindly, already knowing part of the challenges that may be ahead of us.
Waiting is such a hard thing to do. Waiting on the adoption to be complete is one thing. Waiting on answers in order to prepare one way or the other, that's a different story. Especially when we've been in this spot once before.
It still feels so incredibly crazy to know that we've now completed this entire process TWICE.
About Me
- Rachelle D Alspaugh
- I've been married to my husband, Michael, for almost 25 years. I'm a mom to a biological son and an adopted son from Colombia, and I'm also a spiritual mom to my adopted son's older brother, who I claim as a son in my heart. I'm bilingual and love to work with and relate to Spanish-speaking children and families. I've been a teacher to students from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures for the last 20+ years. I'm also an author and a certified Biblical counselor. I'm in a new empty nest season in a new location far from where I raised my boys, so I'm definitely in a stage of rediscovering myself, my interests, and my purpose.
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