Labor Groans

I've been walking around in quite a daze/fog lately, and it occurred to me that although I am well aware that we will have a baby in a few short weeks, I am not getting the proper sympathy that is afforded to most pregnant women in my shape. I've worked around plenty of 9 month prego women, and man, they really can milk it if they try. I mean, just because I'm not "showing" on the outside, I still feel a lot of the same things they do: insomnia, cravings (especially red wine), hormonal breakdowns (OK, that one is probably PMS), forgetfulness, clumsiness (which would explain my four hour visit to the ER last Sunday for almost chopping off my finger with a food processor), and if you want to talk about labor pains, what do you call flying coach for 17 hours - and then again two weeks later with a baby on your lap!? I'd gladly take an epidural for that! I said this when we were waiting for Claire and I'll say it again. I think adoptive moms should be allowed to wear something that indicates we are about to embark on parenthood very soon and everyone in our path should look out, or at the very least supply the chocolate and rub our feet.

On news about the adoption, we have nothing new to report. Only that we received our Visa's today, so we are ready and able to go as soon as China says we can. We are still thinking that we will go the second week of July or around there, but it's any one's guess really. Maybe we'll have more news later this week as Thursday will be three weeks since we were officially Matched.