Happy Story

I've been a little MIA this week.  Things are pretty busy keeping on top of Anthony's medications and readjusting him back home and finding some kind of a routine again.  I'm exhausted getting up in the middle of the night to give him meds and the poor guy just wants to sleep.   However, he's doing fantastic and his skin looks great.  He still has some eczema patches that are constantly red, but we have an appointment with a Pediatric Dermatologist on Monday to hopefully get his skin cleared up.  His doctor said that his infection appears to be totally gone and he's back to his healthy self.

Okay, so for my happy story.

When we were at the hospital last weekend, our case worker came by to visit.  She actually wasn't there to visit us (this children's hospital is 45 minutes away from home).  She was there to see one of her other couples because they were the prospective adoptive couple for a baby that had been born and the baby was in the NICU.  We don't know any details nor would I share them because they're not mine to share, but for whatever reason, the surrenders kept getting put off.

We knew which couple it was and we prayed for them continually.  We knew what they were going through at this point and we were definitely hoping for a wonderful outcome. 

So today I was incredibly curious about how things ended up for them.  So I was beeing one of those creepers on FB, trying to find them.  I knew their first names but for the life of me couldn't think of their last name.  So anyway, while I was looking, a friend's post popped into my newsfeed.  She had posted "Congratulations" onto another girl's wall and when I looked at the name, it was the girl I was looking for!  I never knew they were related, their last name is very common, but it was one of those "duh" moments. 

So anyway, long story short, the surrenders were, in fact signed and the baby is going home with them today!  What a beautiful ending to a kind of stinky weekend in the hospital!

I am overjoyed that another couple in our group was placed.  We are the couple in our group who has been licensed the longest, but only by a month or so.  So we've seen all of these new couples come in and in the last 16 months, we've been placed twice (and had a fallthrough) and only two other couples have been placed at all.  We know a lot of it has to do with some of the couples' openness to races and various situations, but we were so hoping that another couple would get placed.  Most of the couples have been waiting between 1-2 years and our entire wait time combined has been like 5 months for all three adoption situations we've been a part of. 

Sometimes we feel bad going to support groups because we've "lapped" people not once but twice (we haven't had a support group in a few months but we have one Monday, only two other couples know we were placed for a second time).  And on the other hand, we NEED that interaction with other adoptive couples and hopefully soon-to-be adoptive couples.  It's important for us to have that support system and for our kids to have friends who are adopted as well.  So aside from being so happy for the other couples, we are selfishly happy to not stand out so much!