Monday, September 28, 2009

Wish Us Luck (and Happy Anniversary)

This morning Corrine and I are heading to Augusta for a MONDO HUGE meeting about the child we're trying to adopt. Something like 48 people will be at this meeting, representing ALL the state agencies that have been involved in this child's life since, like, conception.

The meeting is for them to get to know us, us to get to know them, them to prod and poke and query and question and scowl and smirk. Us to grin and bear it.

The process is so ridiculously bureaucratic that it's easy to lose sight of the fact that there is a human being's entire life in the balance here.

I am driving from campus, while Corrine will head from home. We'll meet, have our thing-thing, and then head back to where we came from. I have three more classes after the meeting. Corrine has children to care for. So we will not be able to talk about how the meeting went until after I get home, at around 6:30. I know she'll be brimming with thoughts.

By the way.

Our first anniversary was yesterday and we spent it apart, for the middle part of the day anyway. Both vehicles getting worked on. I stayed home and did homework. Corrine took parts to her brother for the Volvo, and then drove the van to her father's to be tuned up.

No romance, no candles, no nothing.

Life.

Can.

Be.

A.

Bitch.

BUT

I woke up this morning and there she was, the woman with whom I fell in love, and whose presence every morning in my world, in my life, makes the bad bearable.

5 comments:

  1. Wishing you both a Happy Anniversary and best of luck with the meeting on your (crossing my fingers)new little guy.

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  2. Happy Anniversary. I hope your meeting goes well, wishing you luck!!

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  3. Wonderful luck to you and belated Happy Anniversary. (Really - just one year? Seems like so much longer. You two just radiate that together-stability.)

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  4. *sniff* *sniff*
    It is so nice to know that after all of the shit life hands us..
    The rude teenagers, the broken washer, the cars, screaming toddlers, dishes, staking wood, raking lawns, school work,and hormone surges... feelings remain the same. I wake up in the night and hearing you breathe, feeling you next to me assures me that I will be able to do the tasks of the following day.
    I am happy to be your wife.

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  5. better late than never...Happy Anniversary.

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