The early days and taking leave…

23 October

This month marks the 5th anniversary of when we found out about Mini, and next month we’ll celebrate (low-key of course) the 4th anniversary of our adoption day – the day we officially became a family. So I’ve been thinking back to the early days and how they were both amazingly positive and overwhelmingly challenging at the same time…and so very different from the early days of having a newborn.

Mini’s arrival was hard. As I’ve talked about before, the NC suffered post adoption depression which made an already surreal situation, even harder to cope with.

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