I took some time today to watch a documentary called My Flesh and Blood. It was about a single woman from California, Susan Tom, and her journey adopting 11 children with special needs. I expected it to be touching, but I didn't expect to be so entirely moved by it. It was beautiful, and gut wrenching and inspring and amazing. If you are interested the movie is currently available through Netflix. It won many awards, including the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for 2003.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342804/
It left me wanting more...I spent the rest of the day researching the family online. As it turns out, Extreme Home Makeover did an episode on the family in 2005! I was really happy to see that. I love when good things happen to good people. :)
The weekend is here, and we still haven't heard anything from CPS on the boys. In some ways it's hard knowing we won't here anything for three days at least (MLK day on Monday) but it's also nice knowing I won't need to check my email every five minutes either. On a positive note, we have plans to meet another family who adopted a young boy with a G-tube and have a biological son with cerebral palsy. This should be very interesting and inspiring! They went through the same adoption agency we are going through, so I think it will be helpful to talk to someone who has come through on the other side. I'm hopeful it will give us perspective.
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