Trying to learn the 'Unknown'

We've posted before about the many questions we have, both about the process of this adoption and about the children involved. We've found that our curiosity is also sometimes your curiosity. You'll ask us some of the same questions we wonder about on a daily basis. I ran across the following article which opens one tiny window into what adoption can be like for the child. Below is an excerpt, and here is the link if you'd like to read the entire post. Why adoption means no spoons and sitting in the dark....

"The other night, I was sitting in the living room reading and I heard him start crying and calling my name. “Mommy”, he cried.  I went into his room and he cried for a glass of water and I gave him a drink and lay by him until he went back to sleep. This moment was so big in his little world. When we first brought him home, he cried silently in the dark. I would hear his quiet sobs from the living room and I wondered how many nights in the orphanage he cried silently, alone. It wasn’t until recently that he has started to call out. It wasn’t until recently, that he realized that when he calls out from the dark place, he has a family that will come. A mommy and daddy that will fight the monsters with him. He has a family that will sit in the dark with him as the pain is expressed and eventually healed to be replaced by scars."