I thought about skipping these monthly update posts. After all, we’re 8 months past Giddy Day, so all of these milestones are kind of old news, haha. But especially after being thrown headfirst into the world of developmental delays, I couldn’t read enough first-hand accounts of life after adoption once we got home with Gideon. It’s one thing to try to prepare before your child. It’s quite another when you’re living it. So for all of you parents in the adoption transition, these are for you!

No one told me I might not feel like a mom. … If it registered in my brain at all, it was quickly dismissed, because it clearly didn’t apply to me. I mean, these other parents in the training book obviously just didn’t love their children like we loved Gideon…