David had such a great year at his company, that he won a trip to his company's president's club. He has won every year that he has been in sales (a little bragging on one's hubby never hurt anyone) but this year the winners got to take their spouses. (Also due to my hubby pushing his bosses to let them take spouses!! Love that guy!!) This year the president's club was at Captiva Island.
So on the morning of March 24, we were hanging in our hotel room. We had a little time before we were supposed to meet our friends to go to the pool and decided to kill some time and check emails. I had an email from a sweet friend (K) that asked us where we were in the adoption process. She had a friend (C) that had adopted two of her four children and that friend was approached by a neighbor about a possible adoption situation. The neighbor was the mom of a teen expectant father, and the family was pursuing adoption for the baby. C was not interested in growing her family any further, but remembered that K had told her about us.
We gave our information to K and approved the family to call us. Then K delivered her third child, only hours after that, so we didn't hear back for a few days. (I guess that third one comes fast.) On Wednesday, I spoke with K's friend, C, and found out more about the family. On Thursday, I spoke with the mom of the expectant father. Over the weekend, we had several conversations and texts with the expectant parents and now we wait. They expect to make their final decision by the end of the second week of April. The expectant mother is due May 6.
At this point, it does not seem that this will be a match for us, although it certainly felt like it for a while. We are trying to put ourselves in the position that if we get a call, we can jump through the legal hoops that we need to, to take the referral, while at the same time, not get our hopes up.
This adoption thing is all about hurry up and wait!!
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