There Always Comes a Time....

To say good-bye.

This week we were informed that we would have to say good-bye to someone very special to us.

Our social worker is leaving us.  Not just us, but our office as our adoption worker.  She has decided to pursue another journey.

This is the third time we've had to say good-bye to our adoption worker.  Our first adoption worker was a private agency worker who was contracted to do our home study for MCFD.  We knew from the get go that we wouldn't have her through out our journey.  We loved her and love her still.

Our second adoption worker was also our first.  She was the worker that had to have us contracted to the private agency worker, but was with us through out our first adoption journey, and our second.

Our third and current worker, did our homestudy update and moved into our hearts from the first phone contact we had with her.  This worker is wonderful.  She understood our sense of humour immediately, and just fit in with us right from the get go.  So having to say good-bye to her is breaking our hearts.

I should probably explain why.  Your adoption worker is someone who gets very personal with you.  She gets to know you and your family intimately in ways that even your closest family and friends may not know you.  It's a very personal relationship.  Now not all people get that close with their worker, but we did.  Especially with this one.  Like I said, she just 'got us' right from the first contact.

So, when she called to tell me that she was moving on, I cried.  I cried hard.  I couldn't imagine not having this lady in our lives.  So I did the only thing I could do and made an appointment with her for an hour from the time she called.

My hubby and I went to the office and went through the bulletin, and gave her a thank you card, and a big hug.  I'm happy that her next step in her life journey is going to be keeping her in this community and I extended an open invitation to our home whenever she feels like having coffee.  I also get to keep her involved in our adoption community by inviting her to share from her new journey with our local adoption support group.

So while we had to say good-bye to her in this capacity, we made a friend.

To our beautiful worker we wish you all the best in your next adventure.  Thank you for all you've done for our family.