Today I got in the mail a very sweet gift for my baby girl. It's a blanket that my friend and I had been admiring. It looks similar to "redwork", a type of embroidery that I really like. It's a great, thoughtful gift. (Thanks, H., I love it!)
Which brings to mind the other things that I have wanted to buy for my daughter. From time to time I have thought about buying her things, either specifically or in general. But I haven't bought her anything. Why, I wonder to myself? I'm not sure.
It's not a superstitious thing. I don't feel like bringing girl things into the house will "jinx" me or anything like that. From what I understand, adopting from China is pretty straightforward. I have no reason to believe that we will be denied a child.
I don't know what it is. I think about her, wonder if she is born, and wonder what we will name her. But I guess it's a whole other step to integrate her into our lives and our house physically. I haven't begun that process yet. For one reason because she is pretty far off in the future still. We won't have her until next summer most likely, and that's if things keep going on track and we don't get bogged down.
Another difficulty. I would probably buy her clothes, except I really have no idea how old she will be and what size. I know that she will probably be small for her age. And that's about it. I wouldn't buy infant things, and then when I look at dresses that are say 2T, I think, "It will be quite a while before she is in that I believe."
Well, anyway, she's got an item in the house now. Perhaps she will just keep adding things now that she's gotten her foot in the door. I certainly hope so!
Posted by grrlTravels at July 16, 2004 5:04 PMWe were in HS limbo, we must have just missed you.
We waited 6 weeks to receive our finialized copy (after me emailing them several times to "just check in with smiley faces"). I was pissy because other people who had used a different agency were getting their finialized copy in 2 weeks. *sigh*
Well, I told the HS agency to mail me the INS/BCIS copy cuz I was going to hand deliver it. I was desperate for things to move along again... control freak that I am.
Now we are in the I171H limbo. I am less anxious about this one though because there's not much you can do about the government. No emails with smiley faces to check on the status.
Hang in there. It'll arrive soon...
Posted by: Marla at July 19, 2004 1:53 PM