As we are finishing up all of the paperwork to be approved to adopt another wee one I find it interesting that it is occurring over the dates that changed our lives 5 years ago. Here is wee one's story...
We always knew that adoption was the road that we would take to bring our wee ones into our family. We had prayed for years to know when we should start down that road, but the answer was always, not yet. One day in February 2005 the answer changed, it was time to get things started. We have learned over the years that sometimes when the answer is yes it time, he means, it's right now!
Before we could even get an appointment with our bishop to get paperwork started the phone rang. This part of the story is best told by a dear friend who was staying with us at the time.(Names have been omitted to protect their wee ones)
It is a quiet Monday night in February 2005. V and A are finally asleep, and Sean, Shawna and Crystal watch the ever comforting series, Friends while Matt shoots a few space marines at the computer. Matt's phone rings, and as he talks, he motions to Crystal to join him. Crystal kneels beside Matt's chair and he gently strokes her head. It is difficult to tell what the this conversation could possibly be about. With nowhere to go, Sean and Shawna sit on the couch trying hard to melt into the background. Crystal stares hard at Matt, and he in turn glances at her with true emotion in his eyes, again caressing her hair.
As Matt hangs up the phone and tells Crystal " That was mom", Crystal asks half jokingly, "Did she find us a kid?" Matt gazes deeply into her eyes and softly replies, "Yeah, a little girl"
Gasps arise, accompanied by a few tears from the more emotionally inclined, as Matt enlightens the group. His cousin is pregnant with a little girl, is due in the next few weeks and would love them to her Daddy and Mommy.
Never to be the ones who just jump into things (except when we moved across country without a place to stay until we were almost there) we asked for a week to decide. We spent the first of many sleepless nights fasting and praying that we would know if this little one was supposed to be ours. The next day we told our bosses that we had some family things to attend to and wouldn't be into work. The DC temple was undergoing it's cleaning so we went to the tidal basin near the Jefferson Memorial instead. We were surprised to find it devoid of people, except for a friend from college who happened to be in town visiting some other friends and was confused as to why we would be sitting there on a Tuesday afternoon. We never spoke about if this was right, but what needed to be done to make it happen, we had our answer.
We began calling our family and friends to let them know that there would soon be an addition to our family, and by soon we meant weeks, and allowed our selves to go shopping for baby things that we would not be giving as gifts.
