In waiting in denial for my son a couple of weeks ago, a thought kept swirling around in and outside of my head. If you knew that you were going to meet a love of your life, what would you wear? :)

Now, I know that this seems so shallow and self-absorbed as I look back, but guess what, at times I AM shallow and self-absorbed. I also Love clothes with a capital L. This was one of the first things to go in saving for Becken's adoption. We have actually been saving money for 5 years, along with collecting spare change donations from friends and undergoing paid recycling efforts. All Christmas and birthday scratch was saved for this future son of our family.

While I was busy... more

One week ago today I was anxiously dreading a telephone call. Our young son was being escorted from Ethiopia to the United States. He was scheduled to arrive in Washington at 958 p.m. Since the day before, I was on pins and needles every time the phone rang. I thought for sure that there was going to be a call at anytime saying that he had missed a connection, or that a flight had been delayed. In my mind there was no way that he could travel so far and still be on time. I refused to let myself believe that I would actually be holding him in just 8 short hours.

I called the agency to see if they had heard anything. They said, "No news is good news". And told me to meet the... more