Collage Copies and "robbing the cradle"

By Jessica

So a couple of weeks ago we went to an office store to make copies of our new collage. We redo our dear birthmother letter online all the time, but our original collage was done in Sept/Oct. 2006.

It was time for a new one.

So away we go to the copy center. Nobody is there to help us. Nobody is coming to help us. We stand there looking around.

Finally the copy center gal sees she has customers and comes to help us.

I tell her we need 55 copies (50 for Ldsfs and 5 extras) and I want to look at the first copy to make sure it's ok.

I obsess over a glaring spot on the first copy.

Right on our wedding picture.

Hmm.

"It looks like a dent in the picture," she says. She doesn't think it will come out.

"Ron, hand me your glasses cloth," I say.

I start rubbing the photo with it.

I'm hoping I don't have to go home and redo the collage again.

She makes another copy and the spot is gone.

Whew.

I tell her, "We're not vain, it's just a really important project."

She asks if we are sending letters to family members or something.

"Actually," I tell her, "We're hoping to adopt and we want the birthmothers to see who we are and what we like to do."

She says, "Oh, I'm adopted." She laughs about the vain comment.

She reunited with her birthmother by using the internet. Her birthmother had provided the information neccessary to find her when this girl was 13. She's now 25.

She asks, "Aren't you a little young?"

Ummm.

"Ron is 31. I'm 28."

I should have asked her how old she thought we were before telling her how old we are. When I first got engaged to Ron, some of the people I worked with would tease me about "robbing the cradle."

This 19 year old guy I worked with would say Ron only looked 19. He was 25.

I'm really starting to wonder how we can make him look older. Especially since, um, well, I'm getting gray hairs coming in. I'm thinking maybe I can dye my hair blonde and we'll die his hair gray!

Or am I just splitting hairs? (pun intended)