How far to go?
I drove down to a village just over the border into Wales to pick up the turkey for Christmas dinner.
I came across a beautiful village in Wales, but really not so far from where we currently live.
I thought - "if we lived HERE we would be outside of the little county we currently live in - and we would be eligible to adopt FROM that county."
My social worker called and confirmed this would be the case, but said - "don't get too carried away - we really don't have many babies".
And I don't really want to leave our current house. Plus the other stuff we would have to consider - our house is not high value, and we would end up with a much higher mortgage, and if I had to stop working too .... and and and.
So I have been looking at property web sites in the area, but most of the houses in our price range are just hideous and I couldn't bear it.
And so it goes on. I am not even expecting all this to be successful.
In other news -
H (see previous posts) gave birth on 12/12 to a baby girl, Amelie, at 24, nearly 25 weeks. Her little heart gave out very soon after the birth. She never breathed, though they filled her lungs with oxygen. By a weird fluke I was there at the hospital, though not in the delivery room as it happened. It was the saddest, saddest thing I have ever witnessed. Amelie was tiny but so perfect. I was under instructions not to cry, and I spent over an hour with H and her partner, N (R's only cousin) and I didn't cry. I don't know how. But when I got home that night, and talked to R and his sister (who was visiting) I realised that H and N would have to leave Amelie behind when they left the hospital. The thought broke something and I just broke. That kind of sobbing that makes your whole body heave.
Then A, my neice, gave birth to an 8lb 6oz baby girl, on 18th December. Name, Holly Rose. I am just jealous and can't work out why she has this baby and I don't have one.
I know there is no justice, life is not fair. I still wish it could be though. For all our sakes.
May 2007 hold for you everything you wish it would hold.
I came across a beautiful village in Wales, but really not so far from where we currently live.
I thought - "if we lived HERE we would be outside of the little county we currently live in - and we would be eligible to adopt FROM that county."
My social worker called and confirmed this would be the case, but said - "don't get too carried away - we really don't have many babies".
And I don't really want to leave our current house. Plus the other stuff we would have to consider - our house is not high value, and we would end up with a much higher mortgage, and if I had to stop working too .... and and and.
So I have been looking at property web sites in the area, but most of the houses in our price range are just hideous and I couldn't bear it.
And so it goes on. I am not even expecting all this to be successful.
In other news -
H (see previous posts) gave birth on 12/12 to a baby girl, Amelie, at 24, nearly 25 weeks. Her little heart gave out very soon after the birth. She never breathed, though they filled her lungs with oxygen. By a weird fluke I was there at the hospital, though not in the delivery room as it happened. It was the saddest, saddest thing I have ever witnessed. Amelie was tiny but so perfect. I was under instructions not to cry, and I spent over an hour with H and her partner, N (R's only cousin) and I didn't cry. I don't know how. But when I got home that night, and talked to R and his sister (who was visiting) I realised that H and N would have to leave Amelie behind when they left the hospital. The thought broke something and I just broke. That kind of sobbing that makes your whole body heave.
Then A, my neice, gave birth to an 8lb 6oz baby girl, on 18th December. Name, Holly Rose. I am just jealous and can't work out why she has this baby and I don't have one.
I know there is no justice, life is not fair. I still wish it could be though. For all our sakes.
May 2007 hold for you everything you wish it would hold.
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