I saw Tears in Her Eyes
May 2006 As we walked into the McDonald's, I was scanning the place, looking for her or our agency rep. Whew. They aren't here yet. We got some goodies and settled in. If you have kids, you will understand that once the food is consumed, the kids are ready to go. So you can understand that after 45 minutes of waiting, my blood was starting to boil a bit. Just a bit. The kids were doing well, but their energy level was escalating. Suddenly, I realized as I was looking at Amanda, that she has this big SHINER. I forgot about that. OMG! Just great. She has no hair yet at 19 months, she is wearing hand-me down jeans from her brothers and she has a big black eye. I am exaggerating, but at that moment, it looked huge to me. Just lovely. Here she is meeting her birth mother and she looks like a little boy with a shiner. We ran out of the house so fast, that I never looked at them to see if th...