Our Baby Honeymoon

When adopting a child from a different state, you have to abide under certain laws—one being the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). ICPC paperwork must be filed, first within the state the child resides in, then within your home state. Apparently there is ONE person within each state department who looks through the papers and then gives the big thumbs-up to the adoption. If you attempt to cross state lines before receiving approval you are partaking in criminal activity.

Though I'm certain Jeremy and I have both engaged in some degree of criminal activity over the years, we'd rather not attempt to parent Livia from behind bars. So we're stuck in Kansas. That is, we're stuck until the ICPC folks say otherwise.

Yet we have so much to be thankful for in this period of waiting... We are in a baby honeymoon, so to speak; away from the cares and pressures of normal home routines. My current home gets cleaned once a day by a delightful housekeeper, we eat a hot breakfast (when we get up early enough) in the hotel's breakfast nook, there's also the reception/dinner hour (the last two nights they've had wine with appetizers—yum!)... And all the while we get to literally stare at this wondrous piece of creation and marvel at every coo, hiccup, grunt and smile.

So thank you, ICPC, for a lovely start for our new family.