Today is Sekai's Gotcha Day, or Gotcha Day revised, or Gotcha Again Day, or Gotcha Day Again. I just did a quick search to include a link about the reasons behind marking the day, and found all kinds of controversy. I'm not in the mood for all that. To us, Gotcha Day was going to be the day we acknowledged being together (again) as a family. Not his adoption day. We were supposed to celebrate that on National Adoption Day (we were supposed to be one of the celebrating and finalized families)...which happens to be this Saturday...which is the same day as National Survivors of Suicide Day. Did I mention how witty was my dear Sekai? And as I've said before, God has a sense of humor. Anyway, today is Sekai's Gotcha Day Do-Over. We had not decided exactly what we were going to call it. But we wanted to note the anniversary of the day that Sekai came home (again) and we became a together family (again). On this day, last year, Sekai came home. We should be celebrating. We should be getting ready to have our family "signed off on" on Saturday.
I think I may be numb. I thought I would be crying and immobilized, but I think I may be numb. I think I prefer it.
"Tell them not to treat foster kids like this.
Tell them not to take kids from their mothers who love them.
Tell them not to treat kids bad just because they have disabilities.
It hurts their feelings."
This is a space to remember my son Sekai. (10/8/93-6/10/09)
To write it out as I do life without him.
To write it out as I do life without him.
To continue his purpose as well as my own.
To help others learn from him and his experiences.
To collect stories of other children bruised and broken in the foster care system, heartbroken by disability or special healthcare needs, needing mental health services that may be unavailable or inappropriate, or simply desperate for love and respect and even family and friends.
To stir hearts to action.
To laugh, cry, add, take, grow, and make it better.
Sekai, age 2
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