We are getting more and more involved in the referral process on our adoption and the reality of what we are doing–what we are becoming a part of–is revealing itself to be a very complicated and, at times, scary thing. That said, reviewing some of the paperwork we’ve received as part of our referral I came across this single sentence. Written by the birth-mother as part of the process of giving up her child for adoption, I think it captures what this is all about more simply and elegantly than anything I have seen yet.

I’m hesitant to jump the gun on it, but it appears that we may, in fact, have our adoption referral. If all goes according to plan we’ll be traveling to Orlando, Florida sometime in August or September. We don’t know much else about the baby at this point except that he/she is bi-racial and appears to be healthy.

There’s so much wrapped up in this process for me that the process of beginning to “unpack” it all, as my dear old fried and professor Jim Wheymer used to say, is nearly overwhelming. I think we are up to the challenge as a family and facing this all with our eyes open.

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