Watching Grass Grow

UPDATE: JULY 7TH 2008

The grass is taller. Referrals have landed in Europe. And we are all holding our breath for our own referral news hopefully, we will all breath normally by the end of this exciting day.

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Yes! While we are waiting for our referral that did not come on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and most like not tomorrow either and even if it did show up on Friday the 4th of July, no one at our adoption agency would even be there to sign for it; it means that one week will pass and we are still waiting. ACK! So in the interim, while we try to act normal, as if one of the most important moments in our life is not eminently upon us, what do we do with our time? Watch the grass grow? Why yes as a matter of fact we are! Every 20 to 30 minutes (when we are at home and not at sleep) we check to see how our grass is doing. We finally seeded a new lawn the weekend before last and it is amazing how quickly it grows; a blanket of emerald velvet covering our soil; transforming our barren yard into a welcoming, beckoning yard. A place for our daughter, we have yet to meet, run around and squeal in. Can't wait! We hope to know by Monday. If you would like to follow along with the adoption rumors the best place is http://www.chinaadopttalk.com/ .

Waiting

Three weeks ago I was in a frenzy. A dachshund obsessed with chasing his own tail kind of frenzy. For all of a sudden, the name we had picked over three years ago did not fit anymore. Let me restate that, the baby name not fitting came creeping slowly, but the desire to find a new name came suddenly and urgently and finding a new name became my obsession. After two weeks of the "baby name of the day," staying up to 2am checking baby name websites, pouring through books of all kinds (Arthurian quests, baby name books, books on birds, on flowers, dictionaries, thesaurus, a few romance novels and more) and then one evening we found it. Once we said her name out loud that was it. It was if warm honey poured over me and now I peacefully sit and wait to hear of our referral. Which, as I write this, may very well be in a DHL package headed to my adoption agency. We might find out as early as Monday our daughter's Chinese name and age and where in the great world of China she is living.... while we are waiting; patiently and quietly as a hummingbird at rest.