November is Adoption Awareness Month
To celebrate that I will be having guests all month whose lives have been touched by adoption. My guest today is Lorilyn Roberts, Adoptive Mother, and author of Children of Dreams, the 2016 Readers Favorite Award Winner in the Memoir category. Below is an excerpt for this book.
This last deception will be worse than
the first
Matthew 27:64
I felt exhilarated to have landed safely. All of our bags arrived in
one piece, including the one with the broken zipper, and we checked into our
room, number 504, at the Lillie Hotel without any problems. I had no tours of
the red light district of downtown Hanoi as I had had in Bangkok.
Aside from being tired and hungry, my adrenaline had kicked in as I
anticipated receiving my baby. I walked downstairs to the lobby to get more
information from the desk clerk on when that would be. The young woman at the registration
counter knew Anne, my contact person, as many adoptive mothers had previously
stayed at the Lillie Hotel. I was surprised to see the other two women from the
airport already in the lobby. They were crowded around a young man I did not
know. The young Vietnamese lad spoke very broken English
“Your baby be here soon,” he said to the young woman I came to know as
Jackie. She had a husband and five-year-old son back home in Canada.
That’s how it worked. Anne had a contact person at the hotel that would
have the babies dropped off after the adoptive families or mothers arrived.
He looked at the second Canadian woman, who was an older, and said,
“Your baby be here soon, too.”
I was excited for them and could hardly wait to hear the same words
spoken to me. My heart fluttered in anticipation to meet my new baby. The other
mothers cleared out of my way so he could address me with news about my baby.
“There is problem with baby,” he said to me.
“What?” I asked. “What problem with my baby?”
I thought he meant some sort of medical problem. My excitement to be in
Vietnam and anticipation of receiving my baby evaporated into worry and fear.
He started to explain more, but because of his poor English, I couldn’t
understand most of what he said. I briefly reflected back to Nepal and how
fortunate I was that Ankit spoke English so well.
“When will I receive my baby?” I asked. I could feel my blood pressure
rising as I tried to control the tone in my voice. The receptionist at the desk
tried to help with translation, but the most I could get out of either of them
was that he didn’t know. Anne would call me tomorrow.
“Tomorrow?” I repeated. That was completely unacceptable.
“Please have her call me tonight,” I yelled at him, “immediately!”
I was visibly upset that I was talking to him and not to her. How could
she do this to me? How could she not let me know what was going on and send
this man who spoke such poor English to be the bearer of bad news? Being
fatigued and jet lagged from the trip didn’t help. I felt slighted that the
other women were receiving their babies and I wasn’t receiving mine.
*~*~*~*
Children of Dreams was a 2016 Readers Favorite Award Winner in the Memoir
category. You can download a free copy (mobi or epub) by signing up for her
email list at: https://payhip.com/b/Xhl2
To learn more about Lorilyn and her books, visit her
website at http://LorilynRoberts.com
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