Being an adoptive Mum is...

...'G' word warning!: feeling guilty over just thinking about taking an adoptive child out of school for a holiday

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...hearing them shout at each other in the most horrendous way and admonishing them.  Then wondering where they got that terrible screaming from and it hitting you in the face it's the way you scream at them when you have lost control.  And then the guilt of wondering just what damage your parenting is doing to them :(

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...'G' word alert!  Being an adoptive Mum is... realising you have run out of chocolate and searching through the fridge you find the kiddies chocolate and think, "What the heck..."  Then the next day when they ask for it for their snack, you have to make up some excuse and feel racked with GUILT, thinking they can see right through you and think that you are a fat Mummy

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...feeling guilty (yes the G word again) that I am typing my blog when the littlies are asking me to play with them

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...having to make special time with your oldest son even though you don't want to and feeling racked with guilt if you come up with a reason not to do it, but a sense of relief that you got out of it.  Then you see the disappointment in his eyes that you are not doing it with him and spend the next few hours cursing yourself

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...draining, traumatic, exhausting, guilt-ridden, harrowing...

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...feeling guilty about not being the best Mum I could be every second of every day

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...feeling guilty every day about not being the perfect mother, or the mother you thought you might be, or even feeling that you are being "good enough"

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...feeling guilty about sending a child to school or nursery dosed up with Calpol and when you pick them up they look ghastly and shouldn't have gone in