Keeping Walking

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking.” – Buddhist proverb

How do you update a blog when nothing’s happening? I feel like I need to have an update at least monthly, but honestly, if you want to hear about any news or development, you can stop reading now.

Ian and I were touched by the reaction to the last blog. I think it had become understood that we would be getting the twins, and it would be a lot of work, but we would handle it. But that’s not how it turned out, it seems. It would have been heart-breaking if we had actually met G. and J., but the fact that we could let them go is evidence in itself that we made the right decision.

We’ve received a couple phone calls about potential matches since then, so we know we’re still on the agency’s list, even if they haven’t been right. We still have a little dream about getting a baby for Christmas.

In the meantime, we’re just a couple months away from my brother and sister-in-law having their first child, a girl. They’re in a flurry of baby-showers and birth classes and name debates, which is fabulous to participate in, as uncles-to-be.

I’m still expecting that sometime in December or January, the novel will be published online, but we’re still figuring out the contract. So that might not happen. I’m still looking into other publishing options.

All of this is to say that there’s no real news or development. No news isn’t bad news, it really is just no news.

It’s like sitting on a powder keg watching lines of the slowest black powder fuse inching their way closer, knowing everything is going to explode eventually. Hmm, maybe the Buddhist quote about walking is a nicer way of putting it.