Hi baby!
Well, sometimes in the darkness, there shines a light!
After my sad breakdown this week, I emailed our friends Ch & Te. They adopted two beautiful little girls through the FL state adoption system a couple of years ago. When we were first experiencing the infertility, Te was a HUGE help to me. As a fellow woman, she gave me that parental advice and guidance I so desperately craved. She’s a wonderful mom to Na & Li, she is funny and down-to-earth and makes me significantly less scared to be a parent. She & Ch are in plans to adopt a third soon which makes me bubble over with joy!
Anyways, my baby, the four of us are meeting for general debauchery on Friday night and I think I am looking more forward to this than to a trip to DisneyWorld! She said she’d be more than happy to talk to me endlessly about my fears, mentor us through the system, and act as a reference if we needed one. I think this is the first time I have been happy about the prospect of parenting without it being tinged by the sadness of more negative pregnancy tests, more doctor’s appointments and bad labwork.
It gives me hope that although I may not be able to have you in the way that I thought, I will get to meet you nonetheless!
<3, Eden
