Graduation I

We had graduation last night. I'm going to miss our classmates. Several of them have already adopted, so I found it incredibly valuable to hear from people who were already experienced in the subject and had great, positive things to say about it. Hopefully I will see many of them again in the support group after we adopt. Everyone loved my lasagna. I have to brag about it and say it was the best dish at the potluck. The only other dish that came close was a jambalaya someone's relative brought in.

I don't feel comfortable telling any of our classmates' stories on this blog, even anonymously, and even though the stories are so illuminating. However, I will tell a little story from a presenting couple. Last night we had a mini-panel with two special presenters: a therapeutic foster mother and an interracial couple (black/white) who had adopted from the agency several years ago. After mentioning how their two adopted sons, who are biological siblings, have totally different personalities, the couple talked a little bit about race; specifically, how their sons handled the same question at school, "Why is your momma white?" One son would say "Because that's the way God made her." The other would say "Because she IS!!!".

By the end of this week we will know for sure whether we're staying with our agency. I really hope we do. It's a very warm environment. The other couple said they'd visited many other agencies during their adoption journey, angrily mentioning they felt some of them were "selling babies". I'm worried because I don't feel comfortable with many of the other choices out there, either. Especially since we're not Christian.

Tomorrow I'm also having my laparoscopy, and I'll be recuperating Friday and all weekend. I plan on catching up on Battlestar Galactica Season I and finishing Jeff Vandermeer's Shriek: An Afterword. My little dog will be so happy to have me hanging around all day. I'm going to draft my mother to teach my ESL class tomorrow night.