Hope

"Man can live forty days without food, three days without water, eight minutes without air, but only for a second without hope" — Anonymous

Well the work day is about to begin at the Korean Ministry, this 2nd Monday of the month, and with it we see the tentative hopes and dreams of countless adoptive parents rising like the morning sun.  Dare we hope that the 1st batch of names will be submitted for EP sometime today, or this week?  For some it would mean EP was around the corner, for others it would simply mean movement, which in itself is good news; but after all the heartache and disappointment we have all already faced these past few months....  some more than others...   Dare we continue to hope?   

You know what?  I think we dare!!!  For without hope life begins to lose its meaning.  

So for one more day we hold our breath and sit by the phone and keep refreshing our email and checking our BBMs and iPhone text messages and log on and off of Facebook and log on and off the message boards and check each other Tweets....  and hope against hope that someone somewhere shouts out their good news of EP submission!   And give us all a reason to celebrate!!!

At least we hope...