foundations
~ Kyrie, our surrogate, has passed all the screening tests and we're meeting for coffee this afternoon.
~ Next week, I'm having dinner with Kyrie, her partner, Arianna, and their little boy, Caden.
~ The transfer is scheduled for (give or take) six weeks from today.
~ Unprompted, my father called and apologized for not coming to visit me last fall while I was in the hospital.
~ If you look at the photo closely, you'll see two dark lines, reflections in the melting snow of the girders of a building just starting to go up. On my way home, I could see the welders at work, the sparks from their blowtorches arcing through the darkness.
43 comments:
i love it. a little spark is all you need.
we're pretty much on the same schedule. (give or take a few weeks).
scary and exciting. but then scary.
Beginnings can be exciting (and daunting too). I'm happy for you that things may be moving forward on multiple fronts.
Perhaps the spring will be a special season for many of us this year.
Cool picture! Good luck!!
A firm foundation is a good thing.
Good luck!
Does your family know about the impending transfer?
Suz: Is it okay if I'm laughing at your comment, just a little?
'Cause I can't help thinking that it sounds like the tag line from an ad for something like this.
Good, good news all around.
I hope it continues.
Hooray for a great photo and for so far, so good news.
Julie
Using My Words
I will never look at a slushy street the same.
Enjoy the coffee date...may it portend wonderful things to come.
Sweet Niobe,
I am so happy for you that things are begining to move forward. I feel a little excited for you too, and I hope that is ok.
I am also glad that your father called to apologize to you...its so hard to live through these times without the acknowledgement of our dear ones. Especially when they were involved with out grief and sorrow right from the start of it.
I have been having a feeling this morning that for many of us, and I wish for all of us to start to have some better days. We all are in need of better days. Perhaps this next year will be a turning point for many of us.
Thinking of you, as I always do.
Much Love,
Erin
OH -- GOOD LUCK!!
All great news... I am keeping my fingers crossed for more.
Does it make me a perv that I actually thought of foundational garments as soon as I read the title? Or do I get a pass because I had a good laugh when I first discovered that use of the word, and that is why it must've stuck?
Well, have a good coffee date and a nice dinner, and six weeks that go by at your chosen pace.
So glad your father called. This really is a case of better late than never. Much, much better.
ah, the bull by the horns. :)
so glad your father called. i don't know how that impacts you, but for me...it would heal a lot, at least for the moment. i can live with and forgive other's shortcomings, but it hurts me badly when they don't recognize them, because then i wonder if i'm in the wrong...?
i hope coffee is wonderful.
I hope this will be just the match you are looking for...
Exciting for you!
It's probably very nosey of me that I can't help wondering about the details of your phone call with your father. I hope it was positive- or at least not horribly negative.
I am extremely hopeful that 2008 is going to be a very different year for you- and it all begins today.
What a powerful, inspiring post.
I can sense the "lightness" in your post -- so happy for you that things are going so well. Enjoy your coffee this afternoon!
oh, such nice news on a tuesday morning.
good on your dad for taking the plunge.
and wow! six weeks!
Good omens, all!
All good news. I'm glad that the surrogacy thing is moving forward and your Dad calling is beyond huge. Hope it helped a little.
Wow. I hope that your meeting today goes well. May it be a harbinger for good days to come in the near future. Thinking of you.
I'm glad to hear you are moving forward with all of this, and I hope the coffee goes well.
Great news all around. Here's hoping for good things.
Good luck!
wow! so many wonderful things on your plate.
Can't wait to hear how coffee went.
xo
Exciting times! I hope that all is well this afternoon - my fingers are crossed for you!
This post is so optimistic ... I had to make sure this was indeed your blog!
I hope the meeting over coffee went well. What exactly does one discuss over coffee with a surrogate? I don't know that Ms. Manners covers that particular situation.
When it rains it pours, and sometimes when it rains money, well, hey. Sounds like a good day all around. Hope the conversation and the meeting were both productive (no pun intended).
I'm crossing my fingers things will keep moving for you!
Yay! Happy New Year coming up!
I have my fingers crossed for meeting Kyrie and the transfer and for good news after that.
That's great news, Niobe. I am filled with glee for you!
Wishing you well on this journey.
~Carole
I hope the coffee this afternoon went well. It sounds so very promising.
I'm excited for you! Hoping it all goes smoothly.
Having read you for so long, I have to think you're waiting or the other shoe to drop. I really, really hope the rest of today went well.
oh... oh....oh....
fantastic.
and that lady with the bull? forget the bra...what kind of foundation is holding her HAIR up?
I was thinking about you this afternoon - just wanted to say that I hope your coffee went well!!
I'm so excited for you! I'm glad that your father called. I hope that wound can begin to heal. When you meet with her are you going to tell her about your blog? I remember a while back you were considering sharing your blog with another surrogate. Just wondering.
Yea!
Hope things went well this afternoon.
The picture of the lady with the bra...I am with Maypole--what in the world is holding her hair like that?!
Glad things are looking positive.
I keep all available fingers crossed for you. Hope the coffee was nice.
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