i'm a total nerd, because i find this whole chinese adoption thing just enthralling.
number one, because of the reason that there are all these girl babies for adoption. totally messed up.
number two, because omg, every one of these adoption stories is a feel-good happy-ending story, and i am such a sucker for those. because, really, we're in short supply of happy stories these days.
number three, each of the stories is interesting. and lots involve health issues, psychology issues (YOU try to get a two year old to attach to you who has never had a primary caregiver in her whole life), etc. all very interesting stuff.
and just look at this photograph. honestly, you can see the anxiousness just POURING off of these folks. this is "gotcha day" and, in just a few minutes, these now probably childless couples... after probably two years of filling out paperwork and going through home checks and making travel arrangements and writing checks and standing in an aisle at the wal*mart trying to figure out what a 9-month-old girl they have never met may like to play with back at their hotel in nanchang... well, they will be handed a baby. and they will no longer be childless. that makes this a remarkably powerful picture, doesn't it?
if you want to see some great pictures, look up "gotcha day" - good stuff.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
