year of fun

Midday today, I got the text that our friends’ son was coming home! They have been going through the adoption process for a while now and have been “live” (available for matches) for about a year. They’ve had some challenging times throughout, but seeing this new family tonight, I am convinced it was all worth it for the little man.

Here’s a list of all the fun things I did in the two hours the hubs and I were there:

1. met the boy
2. heard about our friends bringing the boy home
3. ate takeout around a kitchen island
4. toasted the boy’s health
5. talked about baby stuff
6. rocked the boy to sleep and then held him while he slept
7. saw my friends in an amazing new light as loving, happy dads

They were all fun, but number 7 was probably best. Number 6 was a very close second though.

Today we finally had a book club meeting to discuss books! We had a small scheduling issue so we ended up discussing two books today, The Night Circus and Tell the Wolves I’m Home.

Most of the group liked and had criticism for both books. Personally I was drawn in much more by Wolves. Without giving too much away, I loved the major relationship that developed throughout the book as well as the perspective of the young narrator. The best thing about it though was the discussion. Each person’s point of view brought out something new for me-obviously the point of having a book club. It’s working!

Because of more scheduling issues, we are skipping March and discussing two more in April-Round House and The Swerve. I’ve found my reading for our European getaway!