Nickey and Tony, Sarah, Louise, Roddy and Alex, Julie and Nick, Kim, Segun and Seyi , Kerry and Amerjeet, Robert and Marilyn, and Tristan and Scott
“she’d obviously been very well prepared by her foster carer and it was ‘Hi mum and dad, you’re late!’ ”
“By the time we left, they…we were only there for about an hour and…by the time we left, they were calling us mummy and daddy. Which we weren’t expecting at all.”
“They’d told me he liked football so I’d got him a football and he’d got me some flowers.”
“It was very scary. You have this little creature in the back of the car in a car seat and you almost get out of the car and forget to take him into the house. ”
“She’d sat there saying ‘what if they don’t like us?’, ‘what if they don’t want us?’, and, and it was lovely to be able to share that conversation that, that we had felt exactly the same way too. ”
“And then when we were leaving, both of them brought out their little toys that they’d had, which was the only thing they owned, and made us put them in the car so we would take them home to wait for them. They’d only just met us but then they thought ”
“ ...meeting someone who you had wanted to meet for so long, but not wanting to crowd his world ”
“...just played with his toys and he was happy wasn’t he, and it kind of grew from there…but that first day was stunning. ”
“it was… an odd experience ‘cause we’d seen her, we’d seen many pictures of her, but there, there she was in the flesh the first time. And… it was… it wasn’t difficult but it was quite odd as to what you do. It was like being introduced to…”
“And the questions got progressively deeper, and you were thinking OK so this is from a seven and eight year old and then came the jaw-dropping question, “Do you two sleep together?” ”