Good Advice

It is helpful to have reminders from all my friends who have adopted to do the fun stuff now! Quit stressing and do the things that you may be too busy to do when the little person is here.

So, lets see. Patrick and I have an Outer Banks trip planned for May right before summer school starts. There is a girl's weekend in Myrtle Beach over Memorial Day weekend. Summer school will definitely keep me slammed! And I have been helping to plan my inlaws 50th Anniversary trip which will be to the Carribean in December. Really looking forward to that especially as the little person will be with us.

This semester I have had no academic classes and taught no yoga so I've had too much time for my mind to go crazy! Really trying to focus on the present and everything that is positive and beautiful right in front of me.

Some unfortunate news on the Russia front with a Tennessee woman who adopted a 7 year old boy and tried to send him back to Moskow on a flight by himself. Geez. I realize there are many pieces to that puzzle but what a disaster - troubled child, lack of information or probably deception on some level. But it hurts me heart to think of this child, no matter what his deal is, being given up again. Trying to concentrate on loving the person without condoning their actions. This is a hard one! Now it looks like a hold on Russian adoptions. I feel so bad for the families who are there or waiting and are now in crazy limbo. I remember that in fall 2008 when Kazakhstan had a pause - not over allegations but due to change in Embassy administration. Regardless, this pause was so hard to wait through and made the process so much slower. But I remember that feeling of helplessness. Sending prayers and positive thoughts to these families and individuals.