Adoption + 1
OOPS, We've moved. Come see us in our new space! We happened to be visiting Julia’s family in New Mexico on vacation, and I was planning to go live with our adoption fundraising website when we returned. We were enjoying a Duke City pizza from Dion’s, a local favorite, when my phone rang. It was my mom. My side of the call went something like this, “Hey Mom… what? No, likely not… yeah pretty committed to China at this point. … okay. Love you too! Bye.” “What did your mom want?” asked Julia, enjoying a slice of green chili, turkey, and cheddar pizza. “Oh, there’s a girl in Florida who’s pregnant and wants us to consider adopting.” I added about a half slice to my gaping mouth and slurped some coke. “Oh honey!” she exclaimed. “What? We are adopting from China.” I was completely dismissive of the whole thing. “Dave… can we talk about this.” Julia has a very wide range of tones and emotions. To my own shame, I can be oblivious to most of them, but this was a tone and an emotion th