coming out of the closet....

ok. i think i'm ready to tell.
last sunday we started the application process to adopt a baby girl from china.
now don't get excited. there are quite a few things you need to know.
first and foremost, it takes 3 years from application to bringing her home.
second, there are so many stipulations that we might not be eligible.
here are some of them:
1. we have to have a net worth of $80,000. right now i can only come up with $30,000. unless our florida house all of a sudden becomes worth $50,000 more than it's worth today.
2. we have to have a body mass index of under 40. i would have to weigh 225 to top that. at the rate i'm going, in 3 years, i may be there.
3. we have to be older than 30, under 44. got that covered unless it takes us 11 years to come up with that other $50,000.
4. we have to be married 2 years, 5 if either of us had been married before. we'll be married 7 years in february. so even if you add the two time frames together we still have that covered.
5. we have to have certain levels of education. luckily we both have college degrees.
and there's more that i just can't think of and even more that i don't know about yet. so we'll see. this may not work for us.
i also looked into nepal. if you have a girl already, you can only adopt a boy. if you have a boy, you can only adopt a girl. if you have a girl AND a boy, you can't adopt. so if we had a baby in the process, we gotta change gears and i'm not sure if you can.
guatemala is closed to adoption right now.
so, tomorrow is the seminar down in the springs for colorado foster kids. we'll go and see what that's about. still not sure that's what i'm ready for but we'll see where god leads us. maybe i'll get down there and cry through the whole thing and come home with 5. ha. just kidding. i don't think they are handing them out like "free ipods". so here goes another kind of roller coaster.

oh-and on other fronts, i am scheduled for my mayan abdominal massage for december 7th. we'll see what that produces. literally.