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Sep. 3rd, 2006 09:30 pmFirst, if you have ever dated someone who is a gamer, this is *brilliant*.
Second, I am not the first to observe that when I'm good about reading LJ, I get bad about posting. I have been very quiet the past couple weeks because I have been immersing myself in the blogs of adoptees and adoptive parents and women who relinquished their children for adoption. Because, after veering around for the past 15 months between foster care adoption and IVF and embryo adoption, Mark and I have finally decided to try to adopt from Taiwan. (Mark's brother lives in Taipei, and his wife is Taiwanese, and they are expecting their first child in January, so if we are able to adopt our child will have a first cousin about the same age who shares his/her ethnic heritage.)
International adoption is a lengthy process, and we've just taken the very first steps (i.e., mailing off an application). First we'll have to go through a home study (which I am just not even thinking about, because I can live without that anxiety, and the banks of de Nile are lovely this time of year). IF we pass the home study (and the half-dozen hurdles that come after it), we'll become parents sometime between May and December 2007!
Second, I am not the first to observe that when I'm good about reading LJ, I get bad about posting. I have been very quiet the past couple weeks because I have been immersing myself in the blogs of adoptees and adoptive parents and women who relinquished their children for adoption. Because, after veering around for the past 15 months between foster care adoption and IVF and embryo adoption, Mark and I have finally decided to try to adopt from Taiwan. (Mark's brother lives in Taipei, and his wife is Taiwanese, and they are expecting their first child in January, so if we are able to adopt our child will have a first cousin about the same age who shares his/her ethnic heritage.)
International adoption is a lengthy process, and we've just taken the very first steps (i.e., mailing off an application). First we'll have to go through a home study (which I am just not even thinking about, because I can live without that anxiety, and the banks of de Nile are lovely this time of year). IF we pass the home study (and the half-dozen hurdles that come after it), we'll become parents sometime between May and December 2007!