![]() ![]() But she'd moved to her "big girl bed," and the crib stood - now and forever? - empty. The older children were thirteen, ten, and six. I'd been surprised, as I turned forty-one, by a sudden onset of longing and nostalgia. A few years earlier I had struggled with the question of whether I was too old to give birth to a fifth child, and as it turned out, Donny and I were but a few months away from wondering if we might adopt a fifth child. ![]() I pulled into traffic and silently swung my arm over the seat to deliver a paper bag containing a brand-new bike lamp that had suddenly lost most of its sparkle. "Oh!" he said with disappointment, but then offered knowingly, "But did you find someone really, really sweet to adopt?" "What?!" I stopped and turned around to look at him in amazement. ![]() "I have a surprise for you!" I said as he buckled in. ![]() He tore out of a friend's backyard at dusk when I honked from the driveway and clattered in cleats into the backseat, rosy and dirty under his baseball cap. Lee, at ten, was the first in the family to mention adoption. ![]()
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