Well, our travel plans got changed. We will now be headed to Rwanda a week later. The Minister and her family have the Swine Flu (among other issues that have come up). So, we will be traveling sometime around November 7th instead. I am bummed. . .I want to meet my boy sooner and not later. . .one of my friends was going to be in Ethiopia meeting her son the same week I was going to be there and I was VERY excited about that. . .and this changes our Thanksgiving travel plans and we won't be able to go to Missouri and Oklahoma for Thanksgiving and that makes me sad. God knows. I can't wait to know, too!
The grief of a stepmom. This post has had so many titles: The Invisible Grief of a Stepmom, The Silent Grief of a Stepmom, The Lonely Grief of a Stepmom. . . the grief of a stepmom is like no other grief because it feels so homeless. My stepson died a few weeks ago. Marc and I have only been married eight months and Mackay, my stepson, lived in NYC and we rarely got to see him (he didn't get to come to the wedding or Cabo and didn't stay with us when he came to town), so I didn't have much of a relationship with him. So there is a weird layer of loosing someone I hardly knew and I feel like that is the layer that makes the most sense to everyone. While the family was mourning, I was the one organizing all of the meals coming in from our wonderful friends and neighbors, I was cleaning up one meal and setting up for the next. I was keeping the house in order and making sure Marc was able to surround himself with the friends and family he needed to make it through the
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Can't wait to see you (in person or pics) with your boy. :)
I can't wait to hear about your travels to meet your son.
Congratulations!!