The Story
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Thought I'd take a couple minutes and give you the story. I know some of you are anxious to hear it.
It all started on Tuesday, November 3rd. After school I was showing my friend my new cell phone (it's a really cool touch phone with a slide out keyboard.) At which point I realized I had a voicemail. I thought it was rather odd since I had just got the phone the day before. I call, and it's my friend Shari. Shari was the assistant manager of the toy store I worked at in high school. Her sister is actually the same age as I am, but we are friends non-the-less. Her message gave me every phone number I could possibly reach her at and was telling me that she needed to talk to me as soon as possible. So, I write the numbers down and begin calling. I reach her at the first number I try. No small talk, she cut right to the chase, "Laura, I don't know if you know this or not but I work at an OBGYN and we have a patient who wants her baby to go to a good home." I think my chin hit the floor! "I've been reading you on Facebook and following your blog. I know you have run into the financial piece of things, but was wondering if you were still interested?" Am I still interested!?!? HELL YEAH I AM!!! That's not exactly what I said, but it sounds good. So we went that Friday to meet with the doctor and his wife. They decided that we would be suitable parents and let us know that all they can do is recommend us to the mother. Last week we worked on obtaining an attorney and found a WHOLE lot of information out that we didn't know. We have to have a homestudy done, the mother has to wait 72 hours before relinquishing her rights (DH thinks), and we have to stay in the state where we are adopting him from for at least two weeks. Oh and the mother has to initiate the legal process by contacting the lawyer. At the end of last week we find out that she contacted the lawyer. Now we have to get one for ourselves. Yesterday the hubby was told by the mother's lawyer that we should create an adoption portfolio. So, at the moment that is what I'm trying to accomplish. Along with getting the baby's room set up, so we can take pictures to include in the portfolio. Also, finding someone to do a home study in less that 5 weeks is very tough. It makes me very very nervous. The baby is scheduled to be born Dec. 23 and it is a he. I will try to be better at keeping my blog up to date on the goings on. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers!! They are greatly appreciated!
It all started on Tuesday, November 3rd. After school I was showing my friend my new cell phone (it's a really cool touch phone with a slide out keyboard.) At which point I realized I had a voicemail. I thought it was rather odd since I had just got the phone the day before. I call, and it's my friend Shari. Shari was the assistant manager of the toy store I worked at in high school. Her sister is actually the same age as I am, but we are friends non-the-less. Her message gave me every phone number I could possibly reach her at and was telling me that she needed to talk to me as soon as possible. So, I write the numbers down and begin calling. I reach her at the first number I try. No small talk, she cut right to the chase, "Laura, I don't know if you know this or not but I work at an OBGYN and we have a patient who wants her baby to go to a good home." I think my chin hit the floor! "I've been reading you on Facebook and following your blog. I know you have run into the financial piece of things, but was wondering if you were still interested?" Am I still interested!?!? HELL YEAH I AM!!! That's not exactly what I said, but it sounds good. So we went that Friday to meet with the doctor and his wife. They decided that we would be suitable parents and let us know that all they can do is recommend us to the mother. Last week we worked on obtaining an attorney and found a WHOLE lot of information out that we didn't know. We have to have a homestudy done, the mother has to wait 72 hours before relinquishing her rights (DH thinks), and we have to stay in the state where we are adopting him from for at least two weeks. Oh and the mother has to initiate the legal process by contacting the lawyer. At the end of last week we find out that she contacted the lawyer. Now we have to get one for ourselves. Yesterday the hubby was told by the mother's lawyer that we should create an adoption portfolio. So, at the moment that is what I'm trying to accomplish. Along with getting the baby's room set up, so we can take pictures to include in the portfolio. Also, finding someone to do a home study in less that 5 weeks is very tough. It makes me very very nervous. The baby is scheduled to be born Dec. 23 and it is a he. I will try to be better at keeping my blog up to date on the goings on. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers!! They are greatly appreciated!





