"Groundhog Day" again

I wrote a post last year about Groundhog Day. I was talking about snowstorms and how frequently we seemed to be getting them this time last year. We've been luckier this year. It's been bitterly cold but not as much snow. As a matter of fact it was 60 beautiful degrees today.

But a Facebook post I saw today pointed out that because of the movie of the same name, "Groundhog Day" has come to describe a day that you sort of live over and over. It occurred to me that for people dealing with infertility and eventually the adoption process, everyday sort of feels like "Groundhog Day".

When we were trying to get pregnant, it was a monthly roller coaster. After each cycle with no pregnancy, it became exhausting to start over. Back then I used to say it was like being a hamster on a wheel. You keep going and going, but you never get anywhere.

Now that we have moved on to adoption it's a bit different. It's a day to day existence. You don't plan for ovulation, etc. You just hope that today you might hear something, anything. You just get up everyday hoping that the waiting period for a match will end. Hoping that the deja vu of your daily life without a child will end.

We have been fairly lucky so far. Although we have had 2 failed matches, we have learned from both. Just like Bill Murray in the movie, we wake up every morning hearing Sonny and Cher and go about our day hoping for something, anything different to happen. One day it will.

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day was last Tuesday. Today I feel like I might as well be in the movie. Another Saturday, another snow storm! This one is not packing the wallop of the one last weekend. This time last Saturday we had a foot of snow. Today it's more like 2-3 inches. North of us they are not so lucky. My brother reports 20 inches so far. He says it's not much fun when you have a dachsund with only 2 inches of clearance from the ground. Our cat has got cabin fever as well. She has had to rely on the dreaded litter box for a week. That's not much fun for me either. As for Hunter and me, well, it's getting to be a little too much togetherness. To quote Jimmy Buffett - "This morning, I shot six holes im my freezer. I think I got cabin fever. Somebody sound the alarm." I gotta go where it's warm!!!