today i announced at our staff meeting that we’re adopting.<\/p>\n
everyone cheered (and i ducked my head behind my hands for some reason) and it felt really, really nice.<\/p>\n
i mean, probably at least half of the people in the room (or maybe everyone?) had found out the news already, but since i hadn’t made a formal announcement, no one had felt comfortable talking about it.\u00a0 and now it’s out in the open and i don’t have to feel secretive about the whole thing.<\/p>\n
And their congratulations were so immediate and celebratory and… i think i got my first taste of what it feels like to announce to a group of friends that you’re pregnant.\u00a0 i’ve told lots of individuals who’ve had wonderfully positive responses, but this was my first mass mention.<\/p>\n
and i wasn’t exactly sure what words to use.\u00a0 Do I say, “Everyone, I’d like to announce that J and I are most of the way through the paperwork that may one day result in a child joining our family!”?\u00a0 How about the mildly too formal, “We’re in the process of adoption!”?<\/p>\n
I finally settled on the simple, “we’re adopting!” which I’m always afraid that people will interpret to mean that we’ve already been matched and will be bringing a baby home in the imminent future.\u00a0 But in the end, this was the simplest way to say it and I could “qualify” it later to alleviate any of their fears that I was planning to take a break for\u00a0 12 weeks of family leave tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Thank you, dear work friends, for being so happy for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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