THE Call

Thursday, April 17, 2014

That was a FANTASTIC day!

It was a half day professional development day, so students were out of the building.  My colleague and I had just gotten back from jumping in a pool for a motivation video.  Don't ask, but things like that are a normal occurrence.

I was in the counselors' office when my cell phone kept ringing.  Andy called asking me where I was.  He told me I needed to go back to my office because the agency was calling us.  WAIT!?!?!?  WHAT????  I repeated what he said in my head.  The excitement in his voice was apparent.  He said a birthmom had fallen in love with us and wanted us to be the parents.  OH MY GOSH!  I don't remember the walk to my office, but I did.

Andy called the agency for a conference call.  My heart was pounding.  I remember feeling every. single. thud.  How could this really be happening?

The birthmother's adoption specialist was on the phone.  She is the person the birthmom works with at the agency.  She started off by saying that there is an opportunity for us, but it was outside of our profile.  Long story short, it was about $10,000 more outside of our budget.  This is when she said the conversation could stop right now and that was understandable.  We asked her to continue...

The birthmom fell in love with us.  SHE found US on the website and knew we would be the adoptive parents.  The agency said that the birthmom knew of a couple who was adopting and the birthmom decided to keep the baby.  That made our birthmom sad and knew she wouldn't do that to us.  At this point, I'm fairly certain I sighed with relief.

The agency continued by saying how the birthmom was very adamant she wanted us and continued to call us to see if we knew yet.  She went through the birthmom's medical history, which we couldn't ask for a better situation.  We also listened to what the agency knew about the pregnancy, and she asked, "Do you want to know the sex?"  WOW!  WOW! WOW!  I remember quite clearly her saying, "You're having a little boy."  That's when the tears started.  I now knew I was having a son, due August 11th in New York.  HOLY CRAP!

We asked her the logistics of everything, because it was more than we expected.  She said we needed to make a decision by Monday and sign the paperwork and wire the money.  She also said she would e-mail us everything we needed to know and do.

After the phone conference, Andy and I called each other.  I kept repeating, "We're having a son."  Typing those words now seems so surreal.  I'm having a little boy.

The phone calls to close family started.  I called my mom letting her know.  I called Laura, who just recently found out she was pregnant.  Her response was priceless.  In her excited voice, she kept saying, "Really?????"  She turned to Jude and said, "Jude, Sarah and Andy are having a baby.  They're having a baby boy."  He got really excited and wanted him to come and play.

So there it is.  It happened.  We found out we would be parents to Oliver.  :-)  Our feet haven't touched the ground since.