Last Thursday, March 13, was our 9th Anniversary. We were going to celebrate by going to one of the Ethiopian restaurants. I got home from work early, and Adam said he wanted to wait a little bit before going. I sat down and promptly fell asleep. No Ethiopian restaurant. I guess we’re an old married couple now. I don’t need children to get tired and fall asleep at
Good friends of ours also had a baby boy on the same day. They and another couple we are friends with were all trying to get pregnant at the same time. One had their baby, a boy, on Valentine’s Day and the other on our anniversary. Maybe we’ll have one around the same age so they can all play.
We finally made it to the restaurant on Saturday. The food was very good. I’m not big on chickpeas or lentils, but I would eat those chickpeas or lentils any time. Couldn’t tell if they were toning the spice down for us, but we did get a side of a spicy paste that added quite a bit of heat. There are a couple other restaurants in the area we want to try, and we also want to bring our friends, but when I described the experience, not many have been interested. A few have, so we’ll get a group together. We think we can get used to eating without utensils - Adam had the idea that when the kids would have friends over, we would take them to an Ethiopian restaurant, so they can go home and tell their parents that we’re the cool parents because we let them eat with their fingers!
Ok, I’m getting ahead of ourselves with the parenting stuff. We haven’t exactly been matched with children yet. I guess it’s still ok to dream. We’re currently working on our autobiography. That has to go to the social worker, before the home study starts. We’re both just about finished, but we had a couple questions about it that just got answered, so we need to polish it a little. I’m sure she wants our sentences to be complete and flow a bit. We should have it to them before the end of the week.
Meanwhile this story in the news kind of freaked me out: http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/4756211.html We did insemination with donor sperm before starting the adoption process. Now, we went through a bank, and the donor was anonymous and had signed a contract, so what is happening in the story probably could not have happened to us. However, I am reminded that it is still a pregnancy option that is not heavily regulated. I have nothing against other people using that option or any other option to start a family. We did it 6 times with no success, but friends of ours have two beautiful children from doing it that way. It’s just a reality check when you can’t have children the old fashioned way.
Didn’t mean to end this on a bad note. We’re still psyched. Hope everyone has a great and blessed Easter.