Forever Day .... one year on

I now have a daughter with raven hair that falls like a curtain around her face and eyes so dark I can't even distinguish the pupils - but their intensity burrows it's way right to my heart every time she really looks into mine. It's been one year - one amazing year. We are astounded that we thought she had attached well early.....little did we know what lay ahead. Now - in the last few weeks she has finally started to come to us for hugs and to plant warm precious kisses on our cheeks. Attachment is so wonderful - to most children it's 'natural' - but to little children whose lives have been turned upside down, who have been taken from everything that is familiar - smells, sounds, the way people look, their surroundings - it can be extremely frightening. Even though we could look at the life she lived - day after day in a cot surrounded by noise and children crying - it WAS her world and it WAS all she knew. Now today the pages have turned and there have been many new chapters. We are totally blessed and feel so lucky to have the little miracle that is Ebony Grace in our lives.


our first moments together


12 months later