I am so very very happy to announce that we have received a possible referral for a little girl!!! She is about 3 1/2 years old and absolutely beautiful!!! She looks very much like Wubitu! We are still waiting on her medical information and her name which should come between tomorrow and a week from now.
The referral story:
As you all know or have read I have not been very patient in this wait! This week I actually gave up a bit and decided to just go on with life as if we were not adopting at all....feeling defeated but determined to get out of the dumps we made lots of plans this week.
This morning we helped at Noah's school for Jar Wars and headed to the mall for some exercise. We stopped at a toy store to let the kids play a bit and I came across the puzzle display and I started to cry knowing that this adoption was too much a part of me to just pretend it wasn't bothering me....I wanted to buy those puzzles and fly them to the orphanage today...the cashier I am sure thought I was bonkers.....
So I pulled myself together, we came home, ate lunch put the kids down for nap...cleaned up the mess that had accumulated from a depressed mommy sitting at the computer waiting to see her daughters face. Picked Noah up from school while Uncle Brian let the little ones nap....sat down to catch up on email with Wuby on my lap and then the phone rang.....Better Future Adoption Services 4:04 PM! I screamed "It is our adoption agency" to Uncle Brian and the boys who were playing Wii bowling. My legs started to shake as Angela said she had a referral for us!!! Wuby said "Mommy do you have to go pee?" Angela said she would email us the picture and the medical info would follow within a week. She confirmed our email address and I sat refreshing for 9 minutes wondering if I was listening when she read us our email address.....thought about calling back....started to answer another email to keep myself busy. Jumped up and down in the kitchen..Noah said, "thats a weird way to say you have to go pee!" During this time I IMed Torrey so he would get it on his Blackberry in class. When the email came I melted and squealed and then forwarded it on to Torrey! He replied "she looks so much like Wuby...I have their pictures pulled up side by side" Then he texted "Are you as happy as I am!!!"!! He is still in class now as I type this. I called Angela back to confirm that yes yes double yes and she said she would send over the acceptance paperwork we would have to wait on the medical info too.
We are beyond excited!!! AND SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED!!!!