Reflecting And Such

• the weekend was beautiful...and so is today
• my baby turns 5 on thursday. say it ain't so
• we are touring a school today other than the one we anticipated our kids would attend. no decisions made...we'll see how it pans out
• i am reading holy discontent for the second time. i get more and more revved up each time i make my way through it
  
• i just read from an extremely unofficial source that the ethiopia program is on "thin ice" and i have to say i disagree. this is international adoption. it's all a little hairy, nail biting, heart wrenchingly emotionally exhausting at times. (recent times moreso than others.) but let's call a spade a spade. it's not on thin ice.
  
• i am reading more and more into the reasoning behind the ban and am sickened. i am also finding comfort in the measures being taken to protect the children...because that is what all of it... all. of. it. ...is about right? the children. my child.
  
• i am also reading more and more about the fact that we are squeezing our way out of the funnel that has been the slow-paced-referral-occurance and i can see light. there is light. there is hope. and there are precautions being placed so that (hopefully) this mess doesn't happen again. hindsight is 20/20 right?
  
• the summer, therefore, other than weather-wise is definitely looking up. it's going to take awhile to get it all going but it is looking way flipping up