I CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE...

...OUR JOY AT THE MOMENT!!!

Yes, it's the post you've all been waiting for (of course no one more so than Jeremy and I).

It is fitting that during National Adoption Month, we are identified by a birth parent as the (hopeful) adoptive parents of her unborn child!!!!  Yes, we got our long awaited phone call today.  It went a little something like this:

Last week we had a 6 month licensing review at which point our case worker had to do another walk through of our home, inform us of any program changes, ask us some really seemingly pointless questions (for example:  "Now you know after you get a baby, you will have to feed it right? **She HAS to ask these, but how dumb is that) and gave us updates on our status within the program.  It was a very uplifting meeting as she told us that our profile had been viewed 4-5 times (about once a month, pretty good considering what we thought we were getting viewed) and she told us that we actually were in a pile of prospective adoptive parents waiting for a birth mom at the moment.  She did not know when she would pick, but (in hindsight) we think she may have had some inside information on this.  She gave us some pretty specific details and kinda led us to get our hopes up... something she generally doesn't do...

Fast forward to today...  I got a phone call from my caseworker and returned the call after school (of course, while I was still AT school).  I was in the hallway when she said "Are you sitting down?" and I shouted and burst into tears, scaring some kids and receiving some pretty strange looks...  So I talked with her for a while and all the time she's giving me lots of details and such and I'm saying to myself "Pinch me" and "I need to call Jeremy".  Once I finally got off the phone with her and had cried for a good fifteen minutes at the point, I called Jeremy.

His first response was, "You're not joking are you?"  That would be mean of me... I drove (maybe a little too quickly) to pick him up at which point I couldn't remember driving there, one of those surreal times when you're not sure how you got from one place to another and made him get in the drivers seat. We then went to tell our parents and we spent lots of time on the phone telling sisters, brothers and grandparents and lots of friends.

So, the details, that we can share (most are confidential) are:  the birth mom is due January 4 (YES, THAT IS LIKE LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AWAY, WE COULD BE PARENTS AT CHRISTMASTIME!), other than we know that we will get to meet the birth mom on Monday, November 29th and get a chance to talk with her and get to know her a little bit.  We do not know boy or girl (neither does she) and we don't know (and can't share) much about her yet.

So, keep the prayers coming.  We are praying very hard for a smooth adoption and (selfishly) that she doesn't change her mind.  Prayers, prayers, prayers please, for the birth mom, the baby, and for us!


P.S. this blog post has taken me like 2 hours to write because we keep getting fun returned phone calls!