March 22, 2007 "I said to my soul, be still and wait...So, the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing." --T.S. Eliot We are dancing and rejoicing today! Rob and Jim (along with our other adoptive friends) departed for Beijing at 12:45 PM today. What a magnificent journey we are embarking upon. Only four short days from Rob having Hannah in his arms, I am overwhelmed by the sense of community this little girl has brought into our lives. When I think about the chronology of this experience, I realize that this was inevitably the way things would work out. I met Rob and was struck by his compassion and the gifts he had to offer the world. For him, this is just the beginning of looking at the world differently and broadening himself in ways he would have never imagined. I am drawn back to the evening Emily was born. I had been in labor for 20 hours (no pain, not progressing, frustrating but serene). In a last ditch attempt to progress the delivery before concluding a C-section would occur, I was given yet another high dose of pitocin and an epidural in hopes it would relax my system. It worked like a charm, and like every other surprise Rob and I have had in life, we were rather thrown into the moment, when we were beginning to expect a different outcome. There she was, a beautiful, wonderful addition to a life we were pretty happy with...and I mentioned I would do it again, in a heartbeat, a thousand times over (okay, maybe not a thousand, but I said that!). Rob and I were all alone (there was an emergency in another delivery room), and he told me I'd done good...it was sweet, and then he said something I will never forget, it was a prophesy of sorts. He said, "I promise honey, next time I'll take care of it." Of course we laughed--never in a million years would we guess what life had in store for us. Today we kissed each other goodbye for a time, so that Rob could go "take care of bringing home our baby girl." Thank you Rob, for keeping your promise.   "Bags are packed...I'm ready to go.."     They want to check what???   It's good to have good friends.           This page hosted by