I got the email from the agency on Wednesday, 3/28. Jeff and i are like two little excited kids.. OMG! they're available to adopt.. what do we do?!?! this is so exciting; what do you think; i don't know; what do you think??? Jeff loves the idea of keeping a family together. this is HUGE for him. me, I'm so damn happy to have a child, make that two kids, oh wait even better a brother and a sister, omg we're keeping a family together! okay i was a blithering, blathering idiot right about now. Jeff suggests we call the agency, still with the intent of "just talking for now" but i can tell he's hooked hard. We keep staring at those pictures. Our little dude has a serious Eddie Munster hair cut. and what's this, our little girl has auburney dark brown hair AND it's wavy? MAN, THEY ARE CUTE BEYOND WORDS.
That evening I call Melissa our little angel, and tell her that the kids are available for adoption. WOO HOO!!! She tells me all kinds or interesting facts about Vietnam the provinces, the culture, the ethnic backgrounds. I feel like i just took a masters course at some university. and it's a good thing i learned all this from her. I decided to take it one step further and do a little online research of my own. I googled their province, their ethnic group, everything i could find. Next morning, i call the agency and say YES we're interested. I found out agency procedure is to wait two weeks and collect all interested apps. then after the two weeks they'll make a decision on which family is best suited for these kids. My heart sinks a bit... oh.. i have to wait? you don't like me enough to just give me the kids? i promise we're nice people....
I decide it's time for the hard sell, we want these kids, heck we know they're OUR kids!!! So in a panic, I start running through my laundry list of why we're such great candidates... we're already DTV. see no more paperwork. all good to go! well that is a very good (selling) point says the coordinator. we already have grown kids, so no surprises in child care for us... hmm that's good to know... okay I'm dying, I need something REALLY BIG HERE!!! aha! I go back to my master's class research and i start telling her all about these kid's ethnic background (did you know there are around 5000 ethnic groups in Vietnam, and there could be one big tribe but if they live in different provinces they all speak a different dialect?) Ohhh i was armed with lots of history, lots of info... okay maybe some things i was making up, but it sounded smart and well researched. Okay... now we're talking... i can see her smiling... she likes us... i know we're a sure thing now... yeah, she's writing a big YES right next to our names.
That night I tell Jeff all about our phone conversation. We say, okay this is for real now... our lives are going to be really different... two kids, under the age of five. no more dinners out.. no more expensive gifts.. We look at each other expectantly... you can feel the electricity.... the excitement is so hard and palpable i feel like we're bathing in it.... you good with this? yeah, you? I'm good. let's do it!
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