For the sake of comparison -
Nov. 5th, 2007 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgIt's blustery, overcast and pretty damn nippy for people who freeze at 50 degrees.
What a difference a few weeks make. You'd never known the place was on fire from all directions.
But I can assure you - the people who lost their homes? It's been no time at all yet.
We still wait, here. Wait for the contractor to get the final word back to us on what we can do to our house - keep it, repair or replace it - and we get word from the agency that the wait that was nine months when we began is now 23 months or longer. So instead of the window opening next year in September, it now opens in January of 2009.
And I can't do anything - anything about that. I also can't make any changes. Can't add. Can't delete. Just...wait. I'd be okay with that, except I thought this was going to be at least as short a process as doing it ourselves...and nearly five years later, no closer to being parents than when we started.
I'm looking at it like a transplant, these days. I have to wait in line and hope I get lucky. I might wait my whole life and never see it happen, too. That's the territory I'm in.
The only difference between me and my contemporaries in this process is that I didn't spend the time and $$$ in assisted repro before resorting to adoption. This was my first choice, because I truly don't care where the kids come from and there are plenty of people biologically related to me that frankly, don't recommend the idea to me over adoption.
Meh.
I'm caving. I'm getting a wireless router for the house. One more thing for me to admin, and I've been resisting it like rebuying the White Album one more time. (Why? Oh. Yeah. Another format. Again. Yay.) Expect cursing to commence as soon as it gets here.
What a difference a few weeks make. You'd never known the place was on fire from all directions.
But I can assure you - the people who lost their homes? It's been no time at all yet.
We still wait, here. Wait for the contractor to get the final word back to us on what we can do to our house - keep it, repair or replace it - and we get word from the agency that the wait that was nine months when we began is now 23 months or longer. So instead of the window opening next year in September, it now opens in January of 2009.
And I can't do anything - anything about that. I also can't make any changes. Can't add. Can't delete. Just...wait. I'd be okay with that, except I thought this was going to be at least as short a process as doing it ourselves...and nearly five years later, no closer to being parents than when we started.
I'm looking at it like a transplant, these days. I have to wait in line and hope I get lucky. I might wait my whole life and never see it happen, too. That's the territory I'm in.
The only difference between me and my contemporaries in this process is that I didn't spend the time and $$$ in assisted repro before resorting to adoption. This was my first choice, because I truly don't care where the kids come from and there are plenty of people biologically related to me that frankly, don't recommend the idea to me over adoption.
Meh.
I'm caving. I'm getting a wireless router for the house. One more thing for me to admin, and I've been resisting it like rebuying the White Album one more time. (Why? Oh. Yeah. Another format. Again. Yay.) Expect cursing to commence as soon as it gets here.
