“I promise to hold the baby and not break him” -AA

The title of this post is something hubby’s best friend’s daughter said tonight. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I was at work today at 4:15pm.

My husband called me at work today and said “Our adoption social worker called.”

I said, “Okay.”

Then he said, “You remember that mom that is due in April and didn’t have health insurance? Well, I guess she wanted the adoption agency to pick a family for her. The adoption agency picked us. The adoption social worker emailed me asking me to call her, and she told me we can have the baby if we want him.”

I said, “Okay. What did you tell her?”

He answered, “I told her yes. Don’t talk so loud, you’re at work.”

Well, we work in a call center environment, but I don’t care. Ran around to my friends I work around and told them we’d been picked to adopt a baby boy. Called my friend that had already left; she promptly informed me that we needed to get together on Monday and plan a baby shower. Hubby and I went to Target after work and registered for baby stuff; we’re going to register on Babies R Us shortly. Called our families and Grandma Denise is going to throw a shower with hubby’s Aunt and Grandma Denise’s good friend. We decided on a work truck/airplane/dump truck theme for the nursery.

The baby is due April 16th. It’s a boy, half african-american, half caucasian, no known serious medical issues.

I am totally un prepared.

I am sorry if I didn’t call you personally, I tried to call as many people as I could think of.

Thanks! We’ll keep you updated! We have a name picked out (We’ve had it planned for YEARS) but we’re keeping it a secret until he’s born. We’ll let you know!

I can’t stop smiling!

Posted by: DramaQueen | 04-04-2008 | 08:04 PM
Posted in: Progress | Our future kids | Potential Child Matches | Preparing for Baby