Spending this past month in Mexico, filling our home and our
days with friends and kids we love, soaking up sunshine, and consuming copious
amounts of Mexican food has been a great distraction from my continuing AOD
(Adoption Obsessive Disorder, a rather pathetic debilitating condition that
afflicts every waiting adoptive parent).
It has been a good way to pass the time and focus our attention away
from our “LOA” (our final approval that will indicate imminent travel) wait
time.
Despite the pleasant distractions, I still find my mind and
heart occasionally wandering back to the child that isn’t with us on this
trip. It feels like someone is missing
from our excursions and outings.
Someone else should be curled up on the couch reading stories with us,
someone else should be discovering sea shells at the beach and playing out on
the sunny patio. I am determined (mostly
successfully) to live in the moment and enjoy each day, but as we near the end of our Baja trip I am finding
myself looking ahead to our next big adventure….our trip to China where we will
finally, after 10 months of praying, waiting, hoping, and loving from a
far, hold our new son in our arms and
bring him home.
I’m also itching to check our mail and see if the final
document from the Judge is there waiting for us. All that remained for Cece’s adoption was for
all the paperwork to go to a judge and have him sign it as forever final. There was nothing left for us to do. We’re hoping that at some point during our
time away she became our official forever daughter. I guess that beats compulsively stalking the
mail man looking for it every day.
Although we are close to finalizing both adoptions our
sitting at home fretting isn’t going to speed anything up so I’m glad that we
had this chance to come and take our minds off ourselves for a while. Although it hasn’t entirely taken my mind
off of a certain little boy living in a far away land. Somehow being here feels even further away
and today I’m missing him.
I’m glad we have things to look forward to once we return to
Canada. With Christmas coming up and 2
adoptions to finalize I’m not quite as bummed out about driving back up to the
land of snow and ice as I usually am.
It’s never fun to say goodbye to our friends and life here though. Although I'm quite happy to say goodbye to the pulgas.
As American Thanksgiving came up on the calender I was reminded how filled up with the blessings of abundant life and love I am. I am so
incredibly thankful. I am so blessed by
our merciful God, who continues accomplish his perfect will through painfully
imperfect people.
1 comment:
I would love, love, love a post about Cece's adoption: the steps, paperwork required, etc..... it seems that there is so little information about how it works in SK. Also for your international adoption have you come across any problems since SK doesn't have adoption agencies. Does MSS do all that an agency typically does?
Loving the Mexico updates!
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