Well here it goes....

I've been reading adoption blogs for a while now. At first I was looking to see how people were dealing with it all. After a while I became hooked and it became part of my day to check and see what these guys were up to. I have never contacted anyone from the blogs that read, but felt they were my friends from a far. I'm not really sure what I'll say on my own blog. I guess that I'm just needing my own place to release the things that run through my own mind.
My husband and I are desperately hoping to adopt a little girl from China. We tried for a couple of years to have a child of our own, but that didn't work out. I think that the reason that we have dealt with our infertility so well is because we were so open and excited about the idea of adoption. I'm not saying that infertility was an easy thing to deal with. I don't know if that hurt will ever go away. What I love the most is that my husband and I can joke about it. I believe that a laugh can help heal.
We are not yet able to start the adoption process. My husband is French-Canadian. We can't apply for adoption until we get his greencard. He has been on a work visa since he's been in the states. We had our INS interview scheduled for 12/22/05. Well, they canceled it. We have a new interview date of 1/19/06. My hope is that they'll stamp his passport that day. That means that he may not yet have a physical green card yet, but it's the exact same thing. If that is the case, I'll be dropping off our application at the adoption agency that same day.
The wait to even begin has been hard. The time that it takes to adopt from China has just increased. So basically, we are waiting to wait. It's just swell.
I think that I'm going to end my very first post. I might go on forever if don't.