Each day seems to bring some new thread to the weaving of our growing family quilt. We’re acquiring a very keen sense for why we’ve never heard two similar adoption stories. As ours is being written, key characters are changing and new scenarios present themselves.
With the move towards working with an agency in California,
rather than the attorney we hired, there are logistics to work out about where
the agency is located and how they can work with T. New questions come up and
more answers are sought. It’s a changing, “organic” process.
Through it all, our supportive friends and family repeat
kind encouragement at how well we’re handling everything. Today, I feel a little
pensive about that. We don’t really feel at all like we’re having to hold
ourselves together or that one more little thing is going to send us into a
tailspin. Sure, it’s different every day and new emotions keep surfacing. But, isn’t that what we were warned parenthood
is all about?
As we were preparing for our trip to California, we just wanted
to know what paperwork was required to be able to bring Meadow home. Other than
that, we didn’t bring any preconceived notions about how this was supposed to
go. We just knew that it was going to be something new. Maybe we didn’t know
how new it would be each day, but hey, we promised to be on a lifelong
adventure in our wedding vows to each other. Why should this be any different?
So, thank you. We’re grateful for your support and your well
wishes. We appreciate hearing that we’re handling everything well because we
hope that we are. We just feel like there’s no other way to handle what is
coming at us except to, well, handle it. When push comes to shove comes to
knock down, flip over and twist in knots, we’ve got each other and an army of
love from all of you. And that leaves me feeling grateful tonight.
