I saw this blurb on our agency's website and it hit the nail on the head.....
"My grandmother had a saying that childbirth is the most difficult pain to bear, but the easiest to forget. As with all of her life lessons, I was too young to understand what this meant, but the saying stuck with me. She was talking about the labor/delivery type of childbirth; however, her lesson could not have been more true of our adoption experience. For the adoptive parent, the pain of childbirth is the waiting. It is the slow, sometimes tortuous anticipation, the ever-present dream-not-yet-realized. How much can we plan? How much can we prepare? How many parenting books can I actually read? How many times can I cheerfully answer the question "Heard anything yet?" It is a pain deeply felt and it is our first sacrifice as parents."
So with that said the next person that says we are doing this the easy way and questions our decision to adopt, I will try to remember that I cannot punch someone in the nose just because they are ignorant.
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Isn't that fun to think that when you do get lucy you might forget how agonizing this part is? You will be too busy to remember anyway!!:)
24 days down.....LOVE YOU GUYS!
Are you sure about the "can't-punch-someone-in-the-face-for-being-ignorant" thing? I want a second opinion!!!
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