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Each new year is a fresh start, and I think I know what all of my readers are hoping the new year will bring – a new addition to the family! That was definitely my wish as each new year rolled around. I would hope and pray that I would ring in the next new year with my child fast asleep in our nursery.
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I sometimes do but do not take them very seriously. I can tell you some resolutions that I never made while I was waiting to adopt:
- Find a way to stop aching when spending time with friends’ children
- Focus on appreciating what I do have instead of what I don’t have
- Let go and let God
- Limit my phone inquiries about that status of our adoption to once a month
- Relax
- Spend one day a week not thinking about adoption
- Stop buying things for the child
- Stop calculating how long I have been waiting
- Stop obsessing over when the child will come
- Stop wishing on every star and birthday cake that my child will come soon
- Talk about adoption less
Nope, those were not my New Year’s resolutions because there is no way I would have successfully done any of them. Instead, these would have been better bets for me:
- Be the squeaky wheel that gets the grease from the adoption agency
- Fantasize about spending time with my child
- Pray that my child and his expecting mother will be healthy
- Pray that my child will join my family soon
- Prepare my finances so I can be a stay-at-home mom when my child joins my family
- Think about how much I love my child-to-be, even though we have never met
I would not have had to work hard to meet those because I was doing those things already.
I hope that this New Year brings a new child into your home and that 2008 will go down in the history books as the year that your family became complete. I also hope that you will look back on this time and realize that everything worked out the way that it was supposed to.
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Photo Credit: Lynda Bernhardt
if I can get a permanant good job, prehaps this year could be the year I start
a husband might be a good help too…
i’ll have to push for it all.