Happy Birthday to Me

On August 29th, the day after my birthday, I received the best birthday present of my life! We were shocked to receive a referral for a 7 month old baby girl. We are madly, madly in love with her and cannot wait to get her home!!! Eeek!!!! How do we speed up the process?!! We know we cannot and that only God can, so we are praying that the time goes quickly and perhaps moves at lightning speed!

Ben called me on Friday morning, he had gone into work that day. He said to me, “ I just spoke with our caseworker. “ She normally calls my cell phone so I didn’t think much of it. Perhaps he had called her with questions about our paperwork. So I was like, “Yeah, ok. What did she say?” He said, “Guess what. We have a referral…for a baby girl. She is 7 months old.” I could hear the excitement and shock in his voice and at that moment, the butterflies in my stomach were flying non-stop and I could not stop grinning. My face lit up with extreme excitement! He told me that photos were on there way shortly. I opened up my email and was giddy like a little girl!!! I could not contain myself and in seconds, our 3 boys were by my side looking at photos of their little sister. They too were very excited and couldn’t believe it, asking “Is that our referral? Is that our sister?” I told them yes and they didn’t stop oohing and ahhing over her beauty and cuteness. Ben was looking at the photos with us, from his office. He was overwhelmed and I could hear it in his voice. He couldn’t stop saying how beautiful she is. And she is, the most beautiful baby I have ever seen.

We received the complete referral later that day, containing social and medical history. We then met, on the phone, with a pediatrician who only does adoption medicine. She was amazing and confirmed our daughters good health and measurements. We didn’t think it could get better than that first day, but this really topped it off, we were just so thankful. Her good health makes us feel so much more at ease about the time she will spend in Ethiopia before we get to meet her and bring her home.

So that’s it!!! We have a referral!!! And she’s a baby!!! We were open to 0-5 years old and never expecting we would be having a BABY!!! We are overjoyed!