Sorry it’s been so long since we updated. You know how life can get.
The Home Study is complete. We are trying to get the dossier completed by the end of the month. We want to thank everyone who has offered to write letters for us. That’s one part of the process we thought would be hard, trying to figure out who would write letters and whether they would be willing. Instead, it’s trying to figure out who to choose, from all the people who have offered. What a fabulous problem to have. So, if we haven’t chosen you, it’s not because we didn’t want you, just that the government of
We brought both sets of parents and one of my sisters to a seminar last Saturday on bonding and attachment. We weren’t sure how they were going to take all this in, and I don’t think they were sure either. There are parenting suggestions that will seem a little strange until you understand the reasoning behind it, and I think they understood. As far as we can tell, they soaked it up like a sponge and asked to go to any of the other seminars that come up in the future. The funny part was that there was one couple, where the husband went to high school in the next town over from Adam, and they had mutual friends. Another couple, the wife played softball with my sister-in-law, so she recognized Adam’s parents right away. It’s such a small world we live in. It was kind of neat that we were all in about the same stage of the adoption and were all close to the same age and same time married. That also takes some of the scare away, I think.
Afterwards we went with the sister who went with us, and her boyfriend to the Belleville Wine and Jazz Fest. That was a lot of fun. We got information on the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail (www.shawneewinetrail.com) which is a possible trip idea this fall, assuming we don’t have our referral by then, to get away for the weekend. So, we taste all the wine (all Illinois wine, which is just like Missouri wine - some good, some not so much) and got a couple glasses and sat at a table to listen and watch the group playing (Brian Owens - really good) and there was this little girl about 3, about 20 feet away from us, just dancing away. She’s dancing and dancing, and her mom decided she had to go potty so she’s dancing while being led to the potty, and dancing on her way back. Even if there wasn’t any music (which wasn’t ever for long) she’s dancing. Just precious.