A blog which charts our journey through the adoption process. The ups and downs, the process and the pondering, the self-exploration and the anticipation. Hopefully these jottings will be a reassurance, and perhaps be a little enlightening, to others considering this particular journey or making their way through it themselves. Monday, 26 May 2014.

Follow us on our adoption journey from filling in a form in order to receive a form to fill in to invite you to an event where you fill in a form. actually adopting a baby! Poems and Arty Stuff. Monday, 18 August 2014.

Adoptive mum interested in parenting, and trying to do it in a gentle way. Sunday, 27 September 2015. Head colds and snot in preschoolers - what I have learned. Sorry about the title but there have been times when we seem to be downing in the stuff and I had to learn fast. Of course all this illness spelt excellent bonding time. Lovely times of physical closeness with my son in the sling . never far from a tissue or a muslin. You can elevate the bonged up nas.