Still hoping to be a mommy

So far I’m not doing a good job of writing in here am I?

I hardly know what to write at this point though - we have such a long wait ahead! We haven’t even had a LID for a full month yet!

I try not to think about it too much, I’m too afraid it will never happen and I will never be a parent.

But other times I can’t help but think about it and imagine what it will be like to be a mommy.

And its not as if I don’t have plenty to do to keep me busy, but sometimes it is still hard to be motivated when there are so many unknowns in this process. I think if I knew for certain that the wait would be x number of months I could plan better.

Anyone else out there waiting too? How are you getting through it?

We don’t have any other kids to  show pictures of here, so I’ll show the closest things I have:

Our cat:

Baby birds that had a nest in our yard:

A baby butterfly in my butterfly garden:

A baby preying mantis that had just hatched out near our house:

A baby orangutan  from the zoo:

A baby giraffe at the zoo that had just been born the day before:

And a preying mantis laying eggs on our house: 

That’s the best I can do!

I have so many ideas of things to write about here, but I can’t seem to get started!

One place to start would be where we are in the process - we finished up our paperwork this fall and were DTC on 11/16/06. It took us a long time to get our LID - we just got it this week! It is 12/19/06.

I don’t know what to say about the wait times now. I keep believing, because I want to, that it will shorten, I don’t think I can wait 2 years!

Hello to everyone reading this! This will be me and my husbands adoption blog to follow our adoption for a child from China.