And then the phone rang....

One year ago today I was at the gym (the last time I was at the gym coincidentally) working out. We were 9 days away from flying to Hawaii on our "We-Can't-Have-A-Baby-So-Fuck-It-We-Are-Going-To-Hawaii Trip." Eyes shut on the treadmill concentrating on the music. I'm still kicking myself in the ass that I didn't write down what song I was listening to at the time. But I open my eyes to check my time and there standing next to the the treadmill was LeAnn, a friend of mine that I work with. She had my cell phone in her hand (as I had left it back at my desk while I went and worked out over my lunch). She had a weird look on her face, "Here, Merle (my wife) is trying to get a hold of you." I knew immediately what it was, I just knew it. We had a meeting with our case worker the night before and it was an interesting meeting where she was asking really specific questions, like would we still be willing to meeting with a birth mom if it was a legal risk situation (meaning not everyone had signed the required paperwork to start the adoption process yet) and if we needed to, could we drive 3 hrs to meet a birth mom, could I do that with my job? Things like that. So I stopped the treadmill before I shot out the back and I called Merle back. We had been chosen. A baby boy was born on January 17th, here are the stats, here's a little info about the birth parents, could we drive 3hrs west to meet the birth mom two days later? My initial thought, I need to leave work, we've got so much to do. I need to see Merle, this needs to happen in person, damn I'm sweaty! We had gotten the call we'd been waiting for over a year to get. We had spent just under a year in the waiting pool, many people wait much longer. I little phone call and EVERYTHING changes, just like that. More on the 9 day whirlwind to come.