51 pages and a final decision

I wrote this weekend. Boy did I write! I finished the first 51 pages of the book we are currently calling "The Road to Sam" of course, that working title may change, especially if we find out Sam is a Sophia! It felt great to get so much down. It's still pretty rough and some sections will undoubtedly get edited to death, but I'm very happy at this point. It's some original stuff, some blog posts, and some letters to Sam from my journal. I feel like I have the bulk of the "back story" done at this point which is good, because I'm always afraid I'll forget something and now it's all down in one place.
At this point it's a book for our family, a chronicle of the journey and Sam's adoption narative. It may, in the future, be something I shop around for "real" publishing. don't know yet. I'll probably end up sending copies to some of you to read and give me the honest trust on whether or not it's funny enough, sad enough, ponient enough, inspiring enough to actually sell copies.

Yesterday, after an hour long talk with my sister, Amanda (who is really my voice of reasoning with parental issues) and a long talk with Gregg, we made the final decision...we are leaving our current adoption agency. I am researching other agencies and have received a lot of good feedback from all of you. We are waivering between Adoption Avenues and Better Futures right now. I need some more information, and have a phone call scheduled with the director of AA tomorrow. We'll see where that takes us. In the meantime, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted and feel really great about our decision to move on. This decision will not really effect anything...oh, other than the fact we'll be united with our child a lot sooner. That could never be a bad thing!

I need to get some office work done, and then think about a 'Thankful' post for today. I fell off the 'Thankful post wagon' this weekend and did to get back on.