So, I when I posted this story the other day, and promised to post my own reactions, I gave little thought to what happens next. I made a simple committment to post a bit later that day, but in the words of John Lennon, life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Work is busy, school is busy, the holidays are busy, the new baby keeps me busy and my husband's grandmother passed away as well.

For a time, I was thinking about who was right in the case of the mother looking to un-adopt an older child she had been raising. How could she do such a thing? And what would I do if I was faced with the same situation?

But what I now focus on is what happens next. Whether she was justified or not in her actions is not the real issue - the focus is what happens next to this boy. How does he grow up? How will he deal with the trauma of his life? Will he continue to rehabilitate himself and work towards finding a good life for himself or what path will he choose to take?

I wonder. And suddenly, as MichMc said, "Makes my every day drama seem so shallow and small."