Last Tuesday, July 29th, I received an email at 3:30 p.m.
This email said something along the lines of:
Hey, we haven't heard from you or Jerry about a referral that we sent you last week.
The deadline is 5 p.m. today. Are you interested?
I, of course, started to panic and wonder where this email was that I suppose to have gotten last week. I email back immediately and let them know that we have only just received this information and we haven't looked it over yet, but that we will immediately.
I opened up all the documents and scanned them quickly.
Sometimes we can just scan them and we will know right away that it isn't a good fit for us.
After scanning and read some of the critical parts of a referral I am thinking that this is a good fit for us.
I called Bubba at work-- he had received the referral, but only just today, not last week.
He hadn't realized or read that far to know that they had to know by 5 p.m. that day!
Not having much time to read over the information being as he was working, he said he trusted me.
At this point we are both starting to get excited because it seems really great!
After getting off the phone I went back and read through all the documents thoroughly.
I knew that we could not turn this down.
We fit every single one of their desires for an adoptive family.
And they fit all of ours!
We knew that we had to say yes!
I responded quickly with a YES! YES! Please submit our profile book.
Bubba came home from work and we talked about it and we got really excited!
The birthparents were going to pick up the profile books from the agency the next day, Wednesday.
By Thursday evening, Bubba had come home from work and was sitting on the couch and says:
When are we going to hear something -- it's been FOREVER!
After explaining to him that it's only been one day since they had picked up the books, I knew how he felt. It's so hard to wait for something that is so excitingly life-changing! For something that we both want so bad and it's in the hands of someone else.
After emailing our caseworker to find out if we would be given a phone call or an email, because Bubba was checking his email every 5 seconds, if we were chosen for a match meeting, we found out that there is no exact protocol, but that we would most likely get a phone call if we were chosen.
It's now Wednesday, August 6th, and it's been a very long week. It's been very hard waiting and wondering if we will be chosen for this precious baby.
As I first panicked when I saw that we only had an hour and a half to respond to the referral, I'm not glad that we didn't receive that email the week before. It would have felt like torture waiting TWO weeks for an answer. We hope that today is the day. We hope and pray that our phone rings today. That this is the beginning of our lives as a family of four.
