On Friday, August 24 we heard from our caseworker that she was bringing our book and four others to a mother on Monday. Since this has happened many times, we didn't get our hopes up. On about Wednesday we realized that we had not heard an update so I emailed our caseworker. She replied to me on Wednesday that the birth mom had kept two books (we sent in a photo book so the birth mom can learn and see more about us) and ours was one. Now, our hopes were up! She thought that she should have an answer by Monday.
That weekend we were camping with Scotty's family and were on pins and needles. Scotty and I decided not to say anything since we had been in this situation before and had been let down. I kept my phone on me the entire weekend...we received small updates. Still deciding, hasn't returned my call, still deciding, etc. Fast forward through many, many emails to Thursday. We were told by a friend of the birth mom (couldn't reach the mom) that she was leaning heavily toward Scotty and I. WHAT???!?!?!?!?!
So as calmly as possible we tried to keep our cool. Our caseworker thought that she would have an answer for us by Friday. Friday comes and I can't help it and email asking for a status update. NOTHING. Saturday morning comes and goes, nothing. Finally, while Scotty and I are sitting at my sister Taylor's soccer game in Savannah on Saturday evening I HAVE to send an email and get an update.
"Hi S*****, Hate to bother you but I am just DYING to know over here. Have you heard anything?"
5.....hours......later.
(Not really, it felt like five hours but was more like 5 minutes)
"Hi Tera,
The mom said yes. She loves you and Scotty and chose you."
I don't think I can really describe the feeling I had when I read that. One thing I thought was, is this really happening??? I read the email and then very casually handed it to Scotty. (I was wearing sunglasses so he couldn't see that my eyes were filled with tears.) He never fails to surprise me...he reads it and says, "Cool, that's pretty exciting". I said, "do you know what this means??" Of course he did but was being Mr. Cool-we were in front of a ton of people!
So there you have it. Our "match" story.
Here is what we know so far, the baby is due January 13. We don't know if it's a boy or girl, and we don't know if we will be able to find out although we both REALLY want to know :) We won't be able to meet the birth Mom, but we have already been in contact through letters. She is a sweet lady making an extremely difficult and selfless decision. She seems confident that adoption is the right choice, but it's apparent in her letters that she's heartbroken. Please pray for her and the baby through this. It is a Florida adoption but not local so we aren't sure if we will be able to be at the hospital.
As of today, our baby...that feels funny to say...is 26 weeks along. He or she is the size of an eggplant ;)
Be on the lookout for shower information...we're already registered at Babies-R-Us. I was in Anderson, Indiana this weekend for homecoming at our college AU. While I was there my sweet college roomates made me (us) a cake and gave us our first baby gifts! It was another moment where it starts to sink in that this is happening!
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