adoption news

We finally have the paper copy of the agreement in our hands, so we will sending off our 'pre dossier' tomorrow and compiling our dossier, including our little family album, in the next couple of weeks. I have been reading up on and talking with friends whom I've met through the African adoption forum who are going this Christmas to pick up their little babies in Bamako. Though for us it will be between 18 months and 2 years hence, it is good to know that (unlike with IVF) there IS a child at the end of this long hard journey;that we WILL have a family one day!

Anyway, any of you who want to send pics or words please send them soon! And again a big thank you for all of you who already have. For Julian and I, considering a 'non biological' family, the welcome, care, involvement and love that you have so generously offered (which, after all, is what creates a family) has helped us get close to the feeling of excitement we had when I was actually pregnant.

I must add that it was such a joy for us to have Hugh and Margaret enter into the spirit of our adventure so whole-heartedly when they were here - reading adoption stories and talking through their hopes ans fears with us, writing out family stories.... It made it all feel more real.

People say about adoption that you are in the first trimester of pregnancy for years (not to mention the years of miscarriages, ectopics, failed IVF's , whatever) and then suddenly you are in labour.

Hang in there with us! We'll get there in trhe end, we will!

We will of course be thinking of you with your various ops H and M. Did you get the hospital to guarantee an anaesthetic for Margaret? Any luck with your local organic store? i heard they do a nice line in bland cornflakes....!