There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

[Pregnancy didn’t occur as easily as they’d hoped, and the couple turned to adoption. Having decided to adopt a Guatemalan child, their paperwork was ready to go. Problems developed when that country’s government had to change some procedures to be in compliance with the Hague Treaty, and those changes led to] an almost total shutdown of the adoptions, ... And so, thinking that we had no time to lose, we went ‘country shopping.’ One of the few options open to us, since we are over 40, was Nepal.

A clock does not care how we spend our time, it simply does it's job and continues ticking.

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

We're in a hurry. Our domestic political clock is ticking, ... But you can't do this in a hurry-that's the dilemma.

It's sunk in. When the clock was ticking, I was really conscious of it. To go out like we did is demoralizing.