Wait times continue to lengthen dramatically. We'd thought almost for certain we'd have our little one at home with us by now, but it looks like we're still about a year away (again!). I have a good feeling about 2008 however. It all starts with this story:
When we were waiting for the adoption practitioner to accept our file, I bought this little stuffed toy at the hospital, a pale pink pig. Anyone who knows me well knows I despise the colour pale pink (for socio-political reasons, but that's a whole other story), but a few weeks before I bought it, I had a strong feeling that I should buy it, when the time was right. One day, I suddenly felt the time was right, and brought him home. That night, the adoption practitioner called and said he was ready to start working with our file. Hmm!
A few weeks later, I realized it was not a pig at all, but a mouse. Much cuter!...
Then, on Christmas day, this year, I realized something that literally stopped me in my tracks (yes, I was walking down the hall, and actually stopped, with jaw dropping suddenness). This coming Chinese year will be the year of the Rat (close enough to a mouse, right?!). To top it off, when I told Joanne this story, she quickly pointed out that the current year was the year of the pig! Hmmmmmmm!
From thinking the stuffy was a pig to it being a mouse, from thinking our little one would arrive during the year of the pig, and it now being the year of the mouse... That's got to be a positive sign, right? We'll take it!
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