Procrastination

My husband and I are the king & queen of procrastination.  One of us secretly hopes the other with do the task.  The hope can go on for days and in this case months.  Scott was born in May of 2007.  We are coming up on his first birthday, which is very hard to fathom.  We have had the paperwork to finalize his adoption since November 2007.  We still have not moved any further to completing this process since then.  Well, I take that back.  We did meet with the adoption agency we used for Scott's adoption.  She walked us through all the legal schmeegle paperwork.  That was a week ago.  I just sat down to work on it and the same feeling of being completely overwhelmed came over me.  I quietly put the paperwork back into it's protective plastic sleeve and opened the computer to write this blog.

Why do I come to a screeching halt when I start to work on it?  My first though is all the legal-ease I have to wade through.  I am totally intimidated.  It's definitely not wanting to finalize.  I want my name on the birth certificate.  I want to bring him to the courthouse in a spanky new outfit and have the judge bang the gavel that his is officially ours.  I want to celebrate with family and friends when it's done.

I told Rob that my goal was to have it all complete by Scott's first birthday.  I guess we need to have an adoption paperwork "date night" this weekend.  Maybe if I sip a glass of wine while we do it, it will soften the process.

baby steps

Okay, here I am.  For the past few months, I have been fascinated with blogs.  I love reading them. Getting that snapshot into the life of someone I have never met.  I have felt the draw to make one of my one.  Tell my own story.  

My little Scott is the reason for this story.  Last year at this time, we knew he would be ours.  He was deep inside his birth mom's belly.  She had chosen us.  She felt connected to us.  He felt so far away.  Now he is with us and where he belongs.  Adopting is scary.  You put so much trust on the line.  Little did we know that we were in for a bigger ride than we expected.  Williams Syndrome is very rare.  1 in every 7500 births rare.  It's not inherited from either parent (unless that parent has Williams).  It just happens when nature feels the need to turn.  That little piece of the 7th chromosome just doesn't happen.  40 genes out of 30,000 lost.  We have been told that Scott is mild.  We are fortunate that he doesn't have debilitating heart issues.   He is a happy, healthy baby.  Very easy and very pleasant.

So here is the beginning of our story.  There is more to it and I will post as we go.