Funny

It's funny (not haha funny but unfortunate funny) that whenever anyone finds out that we are adopting they often use the words long, arduous, difficult, emotionally-draining, and torturous when they refer to the process itself followed by words like beautiful, selfless, wonderful, and amazing when referring to the act itself. It's both.

And why is it, exactly, that something described as selfless and wonderful needs to be so damn long and arduous? (not to mention expensive...but, we're not supposed to talk about the money aspect of all this, are we? That's off limits.) Is there no better way of doing this? I suppose not.

Anyway, it happened again today. Another person at my work heard through the grapevine (boy do I hate that grapevine, but that's for another day) that we were adopting and said it was a wonderful thing that we're doing, then wished me luck on the long and arduous process.

Thanks.

But, on a happier note, here's another picture of Chloe. From the June update when she was two and a half months old:

Don't you just want to grab her and squeeze her? You can see why getting these updates are bittersweet. It's great to see her, but painful to not be able to hold her. Soon, baby, soon. We're on our way soon.

More pictures later. July was a rich month for pictures. We'll post them in the next update.