This post is a day late. I have been so busy since the boys went back to school. I am constantly running in 10 different directions!
Yesterday, September 21st, was a notalgic kind of a day. One year ago yesterday, we got a call (also known in adoption circles as "THE CALL"!) that would change our lives forever....for the better.
The call was to let us know that we were matched, we were chosen by an expectant mom in NC to adopt her baby girl. OMG! Can you say holy happiness! Gah, I still have butterflies in my stomach when I think of this special, amazing, exciting time last year! We were finally going to be parents to a baby girl! My sons were finally going to have a baby sister!
She was due on October 10th. So we still had 19 days to go....to plan and prepare last minute details. 19 days! Or so we thought.
It was so hard to keep this exciting news to ourselves. My husband said not to tell anyone (except for our family and really close friends) this time around. We had a horrible adoption fall-through 18 months (from the due date) before, and it just made us relive the nightmare when we had to explain to everyone what had happened.
I was so damn giddy with excitement, but nervous and scared. Not nervous and scared that we would back out again, but that the expectant mom would back out this time.
D and I had made plans that morning to go see that movie "Trou.ble With the Cur.ve" later that night. All I knew was that it was a baseball movie and I knew who were the main actors in it. JT- anyone?! :)
So then we got the call around 2:00 that day. I was BUSTING with excitement when I went to pick up the kids from school. But Jacob had his friend in the car with us for a playdate, so I couldn't say anything yet....
That night D and I went to the movie and guess where it took place at? Yep, you guessed it- North Carolina!! I just knew then that this was meant to be, and this sweet baby that I was already falling in love with would be our daughter!
I knew about this adoption situation back in June of 2012. We had applied to be shown to her, but our profile was not shown to her in the first showing. (Well, she couldn't open the link to our adoption profile.) She picked a different adoptive family. Then she was told to pick a back-up family, and she could open our profile book at that time, and she picked us. I wouldn't find out this piece of information until 3 months later when I was sitting holding Cambria in her birth mom's hospital room! I remember feeling so disappointed back in June of 2012 when we found out we were not chosen. For some reason, I really felt a connection to these people and felt like this was the right adoption situation for us. So on Sept. 20th, the day before we got "THE CALL", the original adoptive family withdrew from the adoption. I don't really know the details, but at that point Cambria's birthmom said she had to find another adoptive family for her baby before she had the baby...and the due date was Oct. 10th and was coming up soon. On Sept. 21st, she looked at profile books again, and picked us! When I found out it was this particular expectant mom that had picked us, I was sooo excited, saying "This was the adoption situation that I really wanted to be chosen for!"
Can you say "meant to be?!
I really haven't talked about the details of our adoption much on the blog or on FB. It brings tears to my eyes while writing about the personal details one year later....tears of joy, of course.
I went to sleep on Sept. 21, 2012 feeling so extremely happy and hopeful.
I still hadn't talked to her birthmom yet. But I couldn't wait to talk to this brave, strong woman.
As a side note, I've had many people tell me over the past year that I seem so happy and content since Cambria has joined our family. It's true. I am. She was the missing piece to our puzzle.
Do you belive in fate and destiny? I sure do.
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