Miss Molly ([info]molly_o) wrote,
2006-09-03 21:30:00
First, if you have ever dated someone who is a gamer, this is *brilliant*.

Second, I am not the first to observe that when I'm good about reading LJ, I get bad about posting. I have been very quiet the past couple weeks because I have been immersing myself in the blogs of adoptees and adoptive parents and women who relinquished their children for adoption. Because, after veering around for the past 15 months between foster care adoption and IVF and embryo adoption, Mark and I have finally decided to try to adopt from Taiwan. (Mark's brother lives in Taipei, and his wife is Taiwanese, and they are expecting their first child in January, so if we are able to adopt our child will have a first cousin about the same age who shares his/her ethnic heritage.)

International adoption is a lengthy process, and we've just taken the very first steps (i.e., mailing off an application). First we'll have to go through a home study (which I am just not even thinking about, because I can live without that anxiety, and the banks of de Nile are lovely this time of year). IF we pass the home study (and the half-dozen hurdles that come after it), we'll become parents sometime between May and December 2007!

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[info]treewishes

September 4 2006, 03:21:41 UTC 5 years ago

Cool! And the home study will be interesting, won't it? I guess that means putting away the obvious porn and bladed weapons... oh, sorry, put that thought off, k? Seriously, best of luck with all of it.

[info]molly_o

September 4 2006, 16:27:37 UTC 5 years ago

I think as long as we don't have any guns we're OK. I'm actually more worried about my lackadaisical housekeeping.

[info]meri_oddities

September 4 2006, 12:22:41 UTC 5 years ago

Good luck on all of it! It seems like a good decision for you guys. Home study? Hmm... I think they are just looking to make sure everything is clean and accessible.

[info]molly_o

September 4 2006, 16:31:31 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, it's really motivated me to straighten up the house ... You know there's that room where you wind up dumping stuff, and pretty soon it's full of piles of stuff? (Maybe that's just me.) Anyhow, Mark came home one day last week and asked if we'd been robbed, because you could actually see the entire floor of that room!

[info]meri_oddities

September 4 2006, 16:43:52 UTC 5 years ago

Heh. It is piled out from the walls towards the middle of the room. Oh, yeah. There's a reason people don't go upstairs in my house. *g*

Anonymous

September 4 2006, 13:23:49 UTC 5 years ago

May/December-ish, how exciting! If you're reading something that makes you think or tells you something important, maybe you could post about it? It'll be a good way to edumacate those of us who love you and want to know how to help or, more importantly, what not to say.

-- Kelly O

[info]molly_o

September 4 2006, 16:33:40 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, that's a good idea! I think the most educational (and sobering) thing for me has been reading birthmother blogs. *Wow*. I might link to a couple of the good ones.

[info]darthrami

September 4 2006, 14:19:30 UTC 5 years ago

I have my fingers crossed for you. *hugs*

[info]molly_o

September 4 2006, 16:25:48 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks! It's exciting but also scary -- and if all goes well and they hand us a baby, well then that's *terrifying*!

[info]derora

September 4 2006, 16:41:33 UTC 5 years ago

Rooting for you both, no matter which direction you go. And I'm looking forward to knitting baby things!

[info]molly_o

September 5 2006, 13:32:43 UTC 5 years ago

Aw, thank you! We're pretty excited (when we're not scared).

[info]sanj

September 5 2006, 01:08:47 UTC 5 years ago

Good, good luck. Appendages crossed and also? I babysit. ;)

Anonymous

September 5 2006, 03:07:51 UTC 5 years ago

Nothing but good thoughts and hopes for you both...

Nina

[info]molly_o

September 5 2006, 13:31:52 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you! (And we just might put you on speed-dial ...)

[info]tayawulf

September 5 2006, 04:46:56 UTC 5 years ago

I'm praying for you & CGU and for that little spirit that is somehow going to come your way.

Also, first bookclub baby! Hee! Derora knitting, me and M and P cooing, natlyn wondering what the hell all the fuss is about... :)

[info]molly_o

September 5 2006, 13:30:29 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!!

(And now that you mention it, I can *totally* see the scene you're describing!)

[info]katyabaturinsky

September 7 2006, 05:46:51 UTC 5 years ago

Best of luck to you and RoboMark -- you guys will be amazing parents, and if there's any justice in the world, you'll get the chance to prove that soon.

[info]molly_o

September 7 2006, 13:28:42 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you -- we are looking forward to the whole process with excitement and terror!
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