One Year Ago

Wow, I haven't blogged since June 7th!  Every time I think I want to blog, I don't have time to write a good blog post or I don't have the energy.  I can finally drive again after my surgery, so I've been busy doing just that.  Driving 4 kiddos around town and being busy on summer vacation.  I am exhausted.  It's only been 2 and a half weeks since I had surgery.  My body lets me know when I am overdoing it.  Thank you, body of mine!  HA!

Like yesterday.  It was a perfect day to write a great post.  But alas, I did not blog yesterday.  One year ago yesterday, I found out about Cambria and her birth mom and her adoption plans.  I can't remember if I shared the story or not.  It's cool the way it unfolded.  We applied to be shown to her birthmom last June.  We were not picked.  I was crushed.  (OK, this isn't the cool part!  HA!)  I mean, we had been passed over many times on our adoption journey, and none of those "rejections" got to me the way this one did.  I really felt like this was the adoption situation that was meant for us.   I remember going to physical therapy for my ankle and I was standing outside the building, and the adoption professional told me we weren't picked.  I STILL to this day remember that conversation, where I was standing right outside the front door of the physical therapy office when she told me we weren't picked.  I called a couple of my closest adoption friends and told them the bad news.  I was so bummed.  Anyways, moving on....we actually had gotten picked a few times after that day over the summer for other matches (one was a hospital call in Phoenix, all we had to do was get in the car and drive an hour and a half to go get our daugher....and we declined the match.)   These situations weren't right for us, we felt in our hearts.  It was like my gut was practically screaming at me to sit down, and take a time out and just wait.  Wait.   Just wait.  For the right situation.  Then, on September 21, 2012, we got "THE CALL".  When I least expected it.  The adoptive family had to withdraw from the match, and Cambria's birth mom picked us to be the adoptive parents to her baby.  Say wha???   I was shocked! 

Well, come to find out, we were 2nd choice all along.  To hear Cambria's birthmom's side of the story is even cooler!  She received the adoptive parent profile books via email.  She looked at them. She couldn't open our link.  She picked a different adoptive family.  Then the adoption professional told her to pick a back-up choice of adoptive parents.  Then she was able to open our profile book, and she picked us as her 2nd choice/ back-up choice.  

We were the back-up choice all along...for 3 months....and I had no idea!  So then on Sept. 21st, she looked at profile books again since the first family had to withdraw, and she came across our profile book, and picked us again.

One year ago today this little girl made such a huge impact on me, and she wasn't even born yet!

Some days I still can't believe how it all worked out!  How thru the ups and downs and twists and turns, the stars aligned and she crossed paths with Dave and me, and became our daughter.

And I am ever so thankful and grateful and blessed and....happy.  :)