Happy Fathers' Day!

Those Winter Sundays
--Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
about love's austere and lonely offices?

New things

Sophia started day care this week. She has been staying with Amy's mother and grandmother for the past 4 months, so there have been many folks this week adjusting to new things.

We chose a local, church-run day care that many of our friends and family have gone, including our goddaughter. It was just very tough to get a spot there...we signed on the waiting list last march when we sent the application to our adoption agency. It took longer to get into day care than our entire adoption and post-adoption leave time. Wow!

Our home study agency had their yearly, family picnic whilst we were vacationing in Florida. We hated to miss it and especially Courtney, Lindsey, and Ian.

In the past two weeks we have meet two local families who are adopting from Ethiopia. We spent a Saturday in the park with David & Laura and their daughter. There are awaiting their referral of their little boy. And, at Whole Foods this past Saturday, we meet someone else. He and his wife are traveling at the end of July to bring home their little girl. We are very pleased to know the a network, however small, is building here locally and in our region--a network for parents and one for the little ones at the grow.

Maybe these KY families should plan a little late summer, early fall get together....

Fav Foto Monday

Sophia on our first vacation. We went to Florida for a wedding and then on to Panama City Beach to see my family--they were on vacation too.

We three went to a park near downtown a few Saturdays ago to meet a family who is awaiting their referral from Ethiopia for an infant boy.