Can you hear me now?

That advert never made much sense to me until recently. A lone man wanders around the globe asking, "Can you hear me now?" all to show us how efficient his phone is at communicating where other phones fail.

I'm now seeing all kinds of similarities between his journey and my own adoption journey. Several of us are now at the stage of needing pieces of paper authorised to be able to continue and bring our children home.

We are all walking around calling various agencies asking

"Do you hear us now?"

Collectively we have put our voices out into the network that is international adoption and asked..

"How about now?"

We have cancelled "policies" that were set up to expedite our call and clarify our adoption conversation, but have done nothing but add static to an already remote call.

We have stood on one leg, with hands outstretched and our ear straining for the ping of an email saying,

"Come.. we have heard you and are connecting you!" only to find the call has been dropped.

And so.. here we sit on hold.. wondering..

 "Do you hear us now?"

  "Do you hear me now?"

    Do you hear them now?

Day three..waiting to be connected....