17/02/2014
We were camping in the garden of Jah’s short-term foster parents, so that we could get to know each other better before he moved in to […]
10/02/2014
So far Jah had made one visit to our house and met all the family. The next time he would be moving in as the little […]
23/01/2014
Sam chatted happily to Jah in the back seat as D. drove them home. Jah was making his first visit to our home. If all […]
20/01/2014
When I was writing the Memoir a couple of years ago about adopting our children in the 1970s and 1980s, somebody asked me “How would your […]
13/01/2014
It was springtime 1980. Once we had agreed to see Jah, the little boy who might come to complete our family, Pat his social worker sprang […]
04/01/2014
In September 1979 we were approved as would-be adopters for an older child. I needed a job that I could do with a child-in-tow, so I […]
27/11/2013
By the time Sam was six, we realised that the years had flown by and we had failed in one aspect of our family plan. We […]