I was with a man for years who believed the rational mind overshadowed the spirit world (read: the world of no coincidences). It has come to our realization that the first time we were in Zagreb trying to get Tatjana pregnant – she had left the apartment to walk among the giant trees of Maksimir Park overwhelmed with a feeling that a baby would be born to us – the light had changed, the air…
Being here with baby Leo has made me realize what we missed when Tin came into our life. I remember the day perfectly, 14 degrees, Gary, Indiana, and rushing in and rushing out (wanting to get as much distance between me and Tin and there. I did’t get a chance to meet his great aunt, I didn’t get much of a chance to digest the city he was born into or the people. Instead I…
Adoption is another miracle of life. Today, I was in Kroger getting Proseco and a balloon to celebrate the legality of Baby Leo and the woman who blew up the balloon proceeded to tell me her life story. She was adopted. In her teenage years she thought about looking up her biological parents as she was in the throes of angst but then never did it, because she said, she had fabulous parents. She said…