A New Normal
This is such an unprecedented time in our history. A pandemic is moving across the world, and all many of us can do is stay at home and wait for it to pass. I'm in the early stages of figuring out how to provide some sort of distance learning for my students. Husband is seeing a drastic reduction in his hours. No one knows how long this will last and where we go from here -- all we hope is that things don't get worse before they get better. In the midst of all this I've found a strangely useful alternative to constantly hoping the phone will ring with news from the adoption agency. After being passed over twice at the beginning of the year, we haven't really heard anything new. It's always in the back of my mind, but dealing with the anxiety of the unknown because of COVID-19 has replaced the anxiety of the unknown about if/when we will become parents. I do worry a bit, though, that of all times this will be when we get a call -- despite natio...