Has it really been so long since I’ve posted here? I guess so. I’d better get busy.
I’ve been watching the logs for this blog, seeing which searches people are using to get here. Most of the searches involve things like “china red thread” or “china wait time.” One jumped out at me, however. Instead of search for China or adoption, it was looking for me. That was kind of weird. I assumed that people—old friends or new contacts—may occasionally search for me, but here I had proof. It was also empowering, because I was spying on the spy.
And I had some other information about my spy: I’d contacted some people about a potential career opportunity, and the same day the spy had googled me, I’d been contacted by someone from that institution. (I’m being intentionally vague here, since the outcome of this is still up in the air.) Being the brainiac I am, I immediately put 2 and 2 together and thought I had identified the spy.
Of course, I was wrong. I met with these people for the first time on Monday, 1 May, and the person I had identified knew nothing about our impending adoption. Someone else—Beth—fessed up, though.
And as I was leaving, she rushed up and said, “wait,” and thrust a colorful bag into my hands. On the way home that afternoon, Jackie opened the bag. It was a copy of The Red Thread (amazon) by Tord Nygren. This is a picture-book (so naturally amazon doesn’t have an image of it), in which a red thread winds through a world populated by fictional characters from a number of stories; artists; and the many creatures and people from the illustrator’s imagination. It’s an incredible children’s book, but it is also fun for someone of any age to look through.
After opening it, Jackie just said that this was the most thoughtful gift anyone’s gotten us, and Beth doesn’t even know us.
So here’s my shout-out: Beth, YOU ROCK!
(And I’d better get that thank-you in the mail, or I definitely won’t rock.)
