Anxiously Awaiting – A Journey Through Adoption

At this very moment, a wonderful adoptive couple who are friends of friends, are across the country waiting a baby to be born.   Even though they are friends of friends, through the journey of adoption, they feel closer than that.   Adoption takes your hopes and dreams and puts them on the outside for all the world to see.   It exposes you in a way that can make you feel vulnerable, but through that vulnerability, you can form some amazing relationships with others, who share in the experience.  Anyways, this wonderful couple, who are parents to a wonderful son through the miracle of adoption, are potential adoptive parents of the baby that is about to be born.   They were matched through word of mouth networking, and a few months of conversations and visits has resulted in a trip to Michigan where soon, a new life will be brought into the world.

There are so many emotions at a time like this.  Emotions for this adoptive couple – we have been where they are.   I know all too well the roller coaster ride of emotions they are on, and how once you step on to that ride, there is no turning back.   How all your hopes and dreams are right there, but for them to come true, there is a huge life altering decision to be made by a young woman and young man who created this new life, and are trying to make the best choice they possibly can for him.   Even in our adoption, which could not have been any more ideal, it was highly emotional and bittersweet.   Our dreams to complete our family came true, but I know the sacrifice our daughter’s birth parents had to make in order for that to come to fruition.   For our friends, the case is a bit more complex than ours, as there is a great deal of grandparent involvement.   So many hearts on the line.   Everyone wanting what is best for a child.

I hope for our friends, and for the parents of this baby about to come into the world, that peace is found by all.   I wait anxiously for updates, and know that what is meant to be, will be.

One of my favorite photos of Grace fits well here.   She is wearing her the r house couture Adoption Definition onesie which reads…

adoption: adored and loved by both of my famlies

A fridge full of amazing holiday leftovers and what am I having for lunch?

Dreyer’s Slow Churned Peppermint Ice Cream.  I quite possibly love it more than my husband.    It’s pink (when I mix it up), it’s sweet, it’s minty and it makes a perfect mate to mini chocolate chips.   Put in some peppermint bark and it’s beyond words.   It’s sweet wintery goodness at it’s best.

It breaks my heart that it’s only around a few months of the year.  I stockpile it.  I guard it.  I won’t let anyone in my family have any (well, maybe the cute seven year old and if the little one ever gets any teeth, I might share with her).   I cry when it’s gone.

Peppermint Ice Cream

Apparently I confess my love to it every year.   It’s like Santa’s gift to me each and every holiday season.   Now I need to run to the grocery store and buy another six containers…