Simon is not biologically mine but I still consider as my own son because I love him and wouldn't want to be without him :)
We had been discussing with my husband about bringing his son to start schooling in Finland...it scared me totally at first because I was pregnant with our first child at that time and was thinking how I could manage two kids at the same time...thinking that the other kid is already 6 years old and I don't know him at all plus that I will have a baby whom I don't know either yet....:D
Well, I agreed anyway that he comes since it was good time for him to start the first class in Finland...after all, Simon had had a very tough childhood in Kenya so I even felt that it is my time to help him out now....
fear, happyness, anxious, etc....those were my feelings when he came to us from Kenya in August 2007. He didn't know much english, only swahili...Phares was working as a truck driver then and he was away alot so the communication between me and Simon was pretty tough...he was a confused small boy then, but soon we started communicating abit although it was hard. Simon didn't say much, but then he did alot of things that were new to me and made me also confused...how should I manage with him...how will I be his mother etc.
Time went...he started the school, started learning finnish but he had alot of problems in schl...fighting other kids, being angry and all kind of things that made me feel so furious at times...I had to call Phares all the time and tell what happens in school and ask him how I was supposed to now deal with Simon...slowly by slowly things got better...but then Isabella was born and I was now busy with the new baby...I felt bad many times because of not having enough time to get to know Simon better and teach him stuff. Luckily I had my dear friends helping and spending time with him also when Phares was not around. Thank you my friends. You know who you are! :)
So, Simon learned finnish in like 3 months time and our communication got better but now he started testing us somehow..did all kinds of things that I wouldn't have imagined that he would think of doing :)...he lied alot, came home one day escorted by a police because of shoplifting, lied even then that he hasn't been stealing even though he was caught on the act...he lied practically about eeeeeverything..and he had always the stories ready when I asked what happened or why he did something :D...clever boy in that way...
When we now started planning our moving to Sweden, I was nervous because I didn't know how he would react now...moving again to another country with new language and such...well...it all went well anyway...we moved and he got a place in the swedish-finnish school in Stockholm where he could learn swedish slowly. He liked the school and has been going there since then...now he is a wonderful young man who helps me sooo much at home. He is a loving and caring boy. Loves his small sisters very much and takes care of them all the time. Ofcourse there is also fights between Isabella and Simon but most of the time they are good together :)
Simon was born 24th of October in 2000. He likes football, dancing, theathre, scouting and all kind of activites that can be available!
We love you lots Simon! :)
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