Sometimes when I am up late at night feeding my babe I think of what we have to eat in the kitchen really relevant things to post about but I always forget by morning. Since people are always wondering I can give an update on Nori's birth family.
Tasha is doing very wonderfully...she had not a meltdown or anything of the sort although she knows "it" could still happen. She is back at one of her jobs and will start the other very soon so she will be very busy again. Her daughter has started speech therapy and has learned to say her "f's" so you can imagine what creative language she could come up with at any moment. They just sent us some professional portraits they had done at Sears and they look so cute! She is a wonderful woman and we love having her in our lives. Tasha and her daughter, sister, mother and niece will all be coming for Norelle's baptism at the end of March. Because of our unique situation and because it is their very first visit, we are keeping the baptism guest list very short, only inviting our immediate family to the service. We hope our parents can meet Tasha & her family and explore the richness of open adoption.
Paul, the birth father, seems okay but appears to be having more grief that anyone anticipated. He was not very proactive in the process and has not done any grief work through LSS, unlike Tasha. He himself was adopted at the age of 8 (long story) and did not have a good experience. Paul is definitely supportive of the adoption plan and of us, however he has some sadness about the way his life has turned out. We hope those feelings will lessen in time. Paul will be coming to visit in May while in town for the Rush concert.
