How I Spent Mother's Day

J and I slept in to a whopping 8:30 am!! We lounged around until 9:30 and then we headed to Coff.ee Ca.ll for some beignets. I know, I know...bad breakfast for an IR person, but they were so yummy!!! We went back home and J worked on his adoption essays (YEA!) and I fell asleep on the couch. We decided we wanted sushi for lunch so we went to Ich.ibon. J was completely shocked that I was craving sushi (I'm not much of a fan, but for some reason the crab rolls sounded really yummy.) And I finally got the hang of chopsticks!! WOO HOO!!! The rest of the day was spent talking to our moms and J working out a way for me to back up the computer with the click of an icon on the desktop. And to make it even better he set it up to only copy the changes and not every single thing. I love my geek!!! :-) It was a very productive day!!! It wasn't a day without some sadness, but for the most part it was a good day!!

We did have a good laugh when I asked Maddie where my Mother's Day card was. She looked over at J and just stared at him like, "Yeah, dad, where's her card?". Too funny!

Mom sent me a sweet card letting me know she was praying for me during this Mother's Day weekend. It was nice to have my struggle acknowledged.

And to clearify for Mrs. J...what I mean when I say "I will never have children of my own" is that I won't have children that look like us or have mine or J's genetic characteristics. I know the children we adopt will be "my" children, but genetically they aren't and that's a big thing for me. It's not for all people, but for some reason I'm having issues getting over the genetics part. Perhaps I should say "biological children" in the future. Sorry to offend you with my words.