Today Siraya turned 7!

What a seven years it has been!

Here’s to what comes next!

:: Justin ::

This was a huge day in a big week for the ever-increasing Brockie family!

Finally, having been with us since she left hospital aged 5 weeks (in the middle of a trip to Delaware!) and after years of jumping through hoops and battling red tape, Siraya officially became part of the family. I’m not sure that she has ever been anything else, but it’s nice to have the paperwork to prove it.

We have a lovely but quick ceremony at the courts in Waterbury with a wonderful group of people, all very special to Siraya in attendance.

This really is going to be an incredible week here in the Brockie Clan.

Yesterday I was up in Andover, Massachusetts to attend a memorial service for a very dear family friend, Jim Diamond.

I first met Jim when I was 9 and he was chaplain to the University of Minnesota when my dad did a job swap from the University of Edinburgh. Since then we have crossed paths at all sorts of significant events: our engagement, our marriage, Iona’s birth, and many, many more. It was a beautiful service and lovely to catch up with his family and friends.

Today was Siraya’s graduation from Kindergarten.