I think I may be making waiting for a baby harder on myself than it needs to be. Things that I do that I should stop doing:
- Every time I go into Target or Old Navy I go straight to the baby stuff.
- In our spare bedroom, I have a corner of baby stuff that I look at and get excited to use…a stroller, car seat, clothes, toys, and blankets.
- I tell people that it is hard and I am sick of waiting, rather than telling them that I am excited and hopeful.
- I check my adoption profile often (when I say often, I mean about 5+ times a day).
- When I am at work (I am a school nurse at an elementary where it is 95% hispanic and the dark skinned bi-lingual kids are adorable), I imagine and hope that my kids will be as cute as my students.
- I only hang out with friends who have kids (I love all my friends who have kids, but a friend without kids might change the conversation a bit).
- I live my life in terms of “We can/can’t do that because we might have a baby then”.
So, I am going to try really hard to do the opposite of what I have been doing to see if I become less obsessed with adoption and more obsessed with living my life.
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