Rants, raves, and other thoughts...

Here I am laying in bed sleepy yet unable to succumb to any type of peacefulness due to all these thoughts flying around my head. So because Bobby is already snoring like a grizzly bear riding a motor cycle, blogging is my only option.

**Warning** 

I'm in some kind of mood right now so if any of this is offensive, you'll eventually get over it. 

Either way, here goes nothin';

1. Waiting sucks but we're getting better at this patience thing.  After a while you sort of get use to the fact that you're not in control and you can't possibly make God, let along anyone else,  move any faster. Everything happens in the perfect timing though so knowing that has been our saving grace.
2. We realize now that a lot of people are completely uneducated about adoption so you folks can save your dumb and unnecessary comments about, "that one distant cousin of yours who adopted a teenager that stabbed her in her sleep" because they are no longer frightening nor do they effect us one bit.  
3. Keep comments like, "are you sure you want to do that" or "I'm sure if you keep trying you'll eventually get pregnant with your own" to yourself because those are STILL offensive. Fyi, our adopted children will be OURS and with that being said, not that our sex life is any of your business, but we didn't choose to adopt because we can't have a baby.
4. I'll be honest, it was completely eye opening for me to realize that not everyone, especially those that I expected to, has a heart for orphans but because of this realization, the words "many are called but few are chosen" now have come alive to me and I'm more than thankful that we have been chosen.
5. For those of you who know a someone who has a kid they aren't able to take care of who also needs a new mommy and daddy, it just simply doesn't work that way. 
6. Keep in mind they are a child 1st and an orphan 2nd so it's none of anyone's business but ours what kind of abuse/neglect the children we come in contact with have suffered.
7. No we're not opposed to adopting children of any race or age up to 13yrs old and we don't care how weird it will look if we choose children who don't look anything like us.
8. Not getting attached is the hardest thing to avoid doing but it's something we have to learn to do temporarily keep from getting our hearts broken over and over again before we find "the ones." 
9. This journey is really hard and if you can't find it in your heart to offer us anything but positivity, love, and support as we carry on, you are more than welcome to carry on in the opposite direction.
10. And last but not least, for those two hundred people who keep asking if we're going to have our children by Christmas....for the last time....and for the love of God.....WE DO NOT KNOW.

There I said it!  I'm sure there will be more later on but for now all of this has been expelled from the brain and I should totally be able to sleep in peace.....right?! @_@