Are You Kidding Me?

May 15, 2008

Huh. Just when you think you've got life all figured out, and you start accepting the Universe and what it gives you, it throws you a curve ball. Today, at 10:40 am, as I was driving down US-36, chatting on the phone to my BFF, Cathy, about the tourture of 20 month old kids, a call came in from CCAI. Fully expecting to hear that we needed to get them some more paperwork or money... Pam, the woman on the other end of the line asks "Are you ready to be a mama again??!" My head spinned and gravity gave out for a minute. I actually screamed at her: "What? Are you KIDDING me?" about 10 times before she assured me that she was not some psycho crank caller. I kept driving, but pulled into some parking lot and things that I had driven by every day seemed foreign. I didn't know where I was as I tried to absorb this news that just came through my cell phone. I was shaking as I called David. I knew this news would be exciting, but would also scare him to death at this moment in our lives.

See, for almost two years (LID 9/11/2006) we've had our paperwork in China and we've been waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. We hadn't heard anything since December when we switched our file to the Waiting Child program. We just assumed
it would be another 6 - 8 months if and when it would happen! But it did. After a frenzy of paperwork, and entirely sleepless night for me, we accepted this darling little girl into our lives. Let the wild ride begin...and the waiting.