it's been a busy weekend in the dean house. receptions. a house tour. parties. hoodings. a vice president (of the united states). and lots of congratulations. at about noon today, we walked out of wait chapel with nothing on our to-do list for the first time in several days. and jamie walked out a new man -- or at least a man with a new title. though a law degree is considered a doctoral degree (juris doctor), lawyers don't get the title "dr." instead, they receive the title "esquire" at the end of their names. i don't really know what it means, but it sounds cool. both our families were there to watch jamie as he was hooded twice -- once for his law degree, and again for his MBA. i was lucky enough to process in with jamie and sit with him throughout both ceremonies since, obviously, he needed a sighted guide that was not a dog. it was really cool to have that privilege, though i know somebody must have thought i was the idiot graduate who forgot to wear my robe.
rarely do i admit that wake forest has anything over unc, but after today's graduation ceremony, i must confess one thing: graduation on a quad is so much better than graduation in a football stadium. now, i'm not stupid. unc could never host graduation on the quad because there are just too many graduates. but if it could, that would be awesome. there are surely some downs to graduation on the quad (such as the fact that we waited more than an hour in line just to get a seat), but it was an otherwise superior experience to any graduation i've ever been to in a football stadium, maybe including my own. and hey, joe biden was there along with some snipers.
we've been on a crazy sleep schedule since jamie's family arrived friday night. they've been staying with us, which ultimately means jamie and i end up sleeping with at least one nephew in bed with us. and since we let jamie's parents have our bed when they visit, it also means me, jamie, and a nephew squeezed on a tiny air mattress. both our nephews move a lot in their sleep, so both jamie and i have been hit in the face several times in the past few nights with little flailing hands. it makes for some pretty sleep-less nights, but there's also a great feeling in knowing that your nephews love you enough to do almost anything to cuddle next to you in bed.
lastly, our families got to see our new house on saturday. everybody loved it. we are really ready for it to be august, especially considering the grueling summer both jamie and i have ahead of us (he's studying for the bar, i'm taking greek for school). we have had a unique experience buying this house, especially because of the sellers. i actually have been in contact with the wife for several months now regarding my master's thesis. she and her husband have a son with a disability, and i'm doing my thesis on pastoral counseling with families who have disabled children. in one of our correspondances, she mentioned they were trying to sell their house. when we were considering making an offer on the house, i mentioned to her our financial situation and how we are trying to adopt a baby from ethiopia and how i hoped it worked out for us to buy their house for our baby. fast forward to saturday when our nephews were playing on a huge children's playset they have in the backyard. we had been told they were going to take the playset with them. but their real estate agent informed us that the wife wanted us to have the playset for our baby, so they're leaving it. how kind. i almost cried.
we are so grateful to everyone, including the sellers of our house, who have shown such love and support to us in this adoption process. it is daunting everyday to think about how long the process is, and i am often overwhelmed with how much i want to hold that child -- that child who so desperately needs a mother and a father -- right now. i hope to write a little more about that this week, so stay tuned...
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