Eating Frogs

I read an article in our local newspaper a couple of weeks ago where the author talked about sayings her grandmother used to have. "If you have to eat a frog, don't spend too much time looking at it before you have to put it in your mouth." and "If you have to eat two frogs, eat the largest one first."

Well, I've got a lot of frogs all lined up. We found out a couple of weeks ago that Mike is going to be deploying to one of those rather nasty middle Eastern locales. He'll be gone for almost nine months. (To anyone who might know or speak to our kids... they don't know yet!!!)

Next frog, our dog (who has been a part of my family longer than my husband) has been diagnosed with cancer. She's having surgery this week and we'll know more after that.

It's been a long couple of weeks. Adoption news has been a bright point in our lives, but still everything is overshadowed by the impending absence of my husband. How will this affect the adoption? We're not quite sure yet. Part of the reason we chose Uzbekistan is because we could still adopt if only one of us could travel. This was a worst case scenario we had at least considered. My questions now are how it will affect the paperwork and especially the re-adoption in the U.S.

So, for any military families considering adoption, bookmark this blog! We'll walk you through the process of adoption during deployment... or at least we hope to!