Chocolate Promises

I have never been much of a chocolate fan... let alone, I have never had much of a sweet tooth. On the other hand, I have no will power when it comes to chips, salsa, cheese (salty) types of foods. A couple of years ago, a friend introduced me to "real" dark chocolate. The dark chocolate of quality and novelty... not a cheap or imitation type of dark chocolate. The one that I love the most is Dove Dark Chocolate. I love these individual miniatures because it is like eating a fortune cookie, but with so much more flavor and richness. When you unwrap each piece of goodness, you are greeted by a "Dove Promises Message."

Mine tonight:
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Very, very appropriate for where I am at right now in life, and what we are going through right now. I had a wonderful weekend back home; but, I returned to Texas feeling a little melancholy and more stuck in life than normal. The grey cloud of reality is hoovering over my head and I cannot not shake it. My reality check is that we truly are in this for the long-haul. We have always known this and have been committed to this idea, but I am feeling this reality. A piece of me in my mind and heart has hung onto the dream that we could be "lucky" in that our adoption would happen sooner than later. That dream is slowly fading and the reality is starting to set in. It is slowly becoming more and more difficult to see the end of this road. We are still fine with where we are at, but just cannot shake our feelings of discouragement when we have no idea how far away the finish line is. T echoed my feelings last night while we were talking with each other.

My little foil wrapping with words of encouragement is one to keep for the refrigerator door. That is truly what we are doing right now and will continue to do. I really don't know how much more I can keep giving and keep going in my everyday life, especially when I am feeling stuck... but it is little random reminders like this one that refreshes me and reminds me that I can continue to move forward and take one day at a time. As I have said many times before... what other choice do we have? Afterall, another day down does really bring us one day closer to our baby... whenever that might be... :)