Tick Tock

Time is starting to crawl. Every time the phone rings, I run to grab it hoping to hear Marilena's voice on the other end. C. is getting settled in to school and life is becoming a lot easier, so I can see how the timing is a good thing. There are still forms to get notarized and household projects to complete. I am trying to stay busy and distracted. However, it is becoming increasingly more challenging. Also, while bureaucrats make their demands, Alexander is getting older and the separation is going to be all the harder.

I have also started getting the strange adoption conversations. FIrst and foremost, anyone who actually knows Eddy and me is well aware that we are not saints and as for any of our children being "lucky"??? We feel lucky we will be able to call Alexander our son, God willing. As for him being "lucky" to have a family, every child deserves a family who embraces him. Winning the lottery is lucky, having a family?? That is a right.

I am noticing a real bias in our culture that I guess, on some level, I always knew existed. The phrase "Angelina Jolie has her first child" just is so insensitive and incorrect. Like the children she has adopted are somehow less hers.

So, just a little venting. Hopefully things will keep progressing and we will be traveling to get our little man soon.