The Morgan Family

Sunday, July 1, 2012

expecting...


preg·nant
1.
having a child or other offspring developing in the body; withchild or young, as a woman or female mammal.
2.
fraught, filled, or abounding (usually followed by with ): asilence pregnant with suspense.
3.
teeming or fertile; rich (often followed by in ): a mind pregnant in ideas.
4.
full of meaning; highly significant: a pregnant utterance.
5.
of great importance or potential; momentous: a pregnantmoment in the history of the world.


You probably have heard that many people inadvertently get pregnant when they are in the process of adoption. Let me just clarify something...we do not meet the first definition of pregnant above, nor are we currently (or anytime soon) trying to become that way.  And yet, I can honestly say I believe we meet definitions 2-5.  While I may not be physically pregnant, we are now approximately 40 weeks away from the end of our official 12 month waiting period.  Because that year long referral waiting list is just a guesstimate, I find it's quite similar to a physical pregnancy.

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our son...it just so happens that our son will arrive not as a newborn, not as our same race, not in our same country, not even on our same continent.  None of those things exclude him from being fully our son.

So thank you for walking with us through the paperwork and basically everything we had control over...truly the "getting pregnant" phase (that would be kinda weird if you were having a bio kid).  Now we go through the gestational period.  And hopefully, in just 40 weeks, we will have a referral for a bouncing baby (1 year old) boy!  

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