Sharing the love

We are having a blast sharing the news of our adoption journey with our friends. It was a blessing to tell our family over Christmas. We should hear next week (the following week at the latest) if our application has been accepted by our agency. After that, we really dig in and start the paperwork.

Back in May, I was in a production of "Once on This Island." It's the best musical you've never heard of. It's told as a fable of love complete with island gods, peasants and Grands Hommes (read: snobs). Anyway, I was watching the DVD of our show the other day and it came to a song called One Small Girl. It had not occurred to me previously that the song, nay the entire show is about a peasant girl who is *adopted.* Anyway, here's an excerpt from the song that brought tears to my eyes when I was watching our performance...It refers to how the lives of the peasants changed after they adopted the little girl:

And their hut was crowded
And food was scarce
But somehow, their lives held more
One small girl
To live for.

[A STORYTELLER]
They named her Desiree Dieu-Donne or
"God-Given Desire." But in their affection, they called her simply Ti Moune.

[LITTLE TI MOUNE]
What does Ti Moune mean, Mama?

[MAMA]
It means little orphan. Saved by the gods for something special!
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A little girl saved by God for something special. We know that our baby will be a gift from God, destined for "something special."