Finally We Find Our Kids!

I decide to call my agency on a weekly basis. Surely if they know how serious i am about finding our child, then they'll do something. They'll find one of those tens of thousands of toddlers that i just know in my heart are crowding the orphanages and match us with one, tiny, precious, little, peapod of an angel.

Time creeps by slowly. when a very sweet and dear angel Melissa tells me there is a sibling pair available for adoption. It is a boy and his younger sister. would I be interested? My first thought was Yeah Right Jeff would NEVER go for two kids. hard enough getting him to agree to just one.   so i do nothing. later on that afternoon, i take a break, and think oh what the heck... just one little peak-- what could that hurt? so i go over to this agency's waiting child page and there staring back at me are the two most beautiful faces a mommy has ever seen.... oooohhh I'm swooning with love!

Still convinced this is a No Way Jose with Jeff, i don't call to tell him about it... why have an argument over something I know I can't win?  but of course.. i can't just NOT say anything.  So i wait for him to come home then muster the courage to say... "Now we started this adoption process hoping to adopt a child that would most need a home. That's why we said older child, right?  Well, there is a sibling pair, a boy 5 years old and his sister 2.5 years old... and they are available for adoption. what do you think?"    Hmmm, a boy, and he's 5? maybe. it's a possibility, Jeff tells me.  so then he starts to ask me about them and i have to admit i know nothing at all. including if they were even still avaiablel for adoption.... maybe this was old info and they're already home with their new family? I decide to strike while the iron is hot and say... You know there are pictures of them on the website. We rush to the computer and see those darling beautiful faces. We agree I'm to call the agency and just "talk to them" and find out what's what.

Next morning i begin the onslaught.. calls, emails, more calls, more emails... is anyone home there!!???? two painful and agonizing days pass.... I whine to Jeff they must have been adopted. Why else would these folks not return my (11 million) phone calls? So off to work i go... of course the one day i don't have Internet access, mind you! Being away from my computer for the day is like giving up shopping for a year! Luckily it was a short enough day and once home there is THE EMAIL waiting for me... YES THE KIDS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION! and would we be interested in adopting them!????