Brett said yes
Oct 20, 2003 Adoption
I figured he would. We haven’t said no to any of the babies we’ve been told about. Not the preemie in the NICU, not the baby withdrawing from crack so certainly not this baby whose only real immediate issue is that it’s occupying the same city that we are.
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And now for something completely different
Oct 20, 2003 Uncategorized
I’ve known this for awhile but wasn’t sure if it would really happen. I just got an email asking about where to send payment so I think it’s true and I can tell you. My article that was in Brain Child is going to be excerpted in the November/December issue of Utne.
Needless to say, I’m pretty happy about this.
[edited to say that I don't know why the whole entry didn't show up before!]
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and Brett said…
Oct 20, 2003 Adoption
“I don’t know.”
This birthmom has all sorts of other issues so I think it’s kind of funny that they don’t scare us but the same town thing does. I really respect Brett’s concerns and I love him so as much as I’d like to talk him into it, I’m going to let him handle this now. He says he’d like to come home and call the social worker and ask her some more questions about the situation. (I didn’t even ask about prenatal care; I’m always just so thrilled to be getting a precall.) Then I’ll go with what he says. Of course, I hope he says please share our bio and thank you very much but if he doesn’t, well, he’s said yes to everything up until now and he’ll say yes again. We’ll see.
Stay tuned for updates, same bat time, same bat channel.
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Waiting for Brett to call back
Oct 20, 2003 Adoption
Another precall. The only issue that might be a problem is that the birthparents live in the same city that we do and Brett wanted to avoid that; it’s not really a problem for me but I respect his limits.
So I’m waiting to give him the details and then we’ll call back and say yea or nay. Then, of course, if we say yes we have to wait and see if they say yes to us. Then, of course, if they say yes to us we have to wait and see whether or not they choose to continue with their adoption plan.
This pre-adoption thing is pretty hard.
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Brett’s surprise
Oct 20, 2003 Family
Because I was sad about the birthmom not picking us, Brett surprised me Thursday night with two tickets to Urinetown: The Musical. We went on Sunday and it was really pretty fun. I don’t usually like to see a show if I haven’t heard the soundtrack yet because it lessens the anticipation but I enjoyed it and highly recommend it; it’s kind of the ultimate parody of musicals and so if you love musicals, you’ll get a kick out of the send-ups and if you hate musicals, it’ll make you snicker.
The cast was fantastic. I was so impressed with the performances.
We’ve decided to institute family game night for Shabbat. Noah really wanted to play that Lutheran game again last night but Sunday nights are my time to get a solid four hours of editing and invoicing together so I couldn’t do it. We’ve been looking for a way to celebrate Shabbat and it used to be the whole fancy dinner bit including homemade challah. Only that kind of ruined Shabbat for mommy since I had to clear the afternoon for baking and cooking, which isn’t always possible, and I usually can’t find a dinner that’s going to be special and delicious for everyone. I think this game deal will work out much more nicely for all concerned.