China Moon

That's where we are right now....it's a nice place, albeit a lot more hectic than I had ever imagined!

Here's how the call that changed our lives went down....

Our adoption officer, RT, phoned me at home at 3.45pm on Thursday...I saw that it was a private number and just froze. I was shaking before I even picked up the phone, as I just KNEW that this was it!!

I said Hi to RT and then said "Is this THE call"....she said yes...and I nearly passed out. I let her know that P could be home from work in about 45 minutes, and arranged to call her back as soon as he got home. Oh, that was after I let some not-very-motherly 4 letter words slip out!!

Side Note: P and I had decided months ago that we wanted to be together when we found out who our child was. Normally parents this is not what happens, but we decided that even if it meant having to wait a few hours more to find out who Bug was...we would continue the next part of the journey as we always have - holding eachother's hands and being together. I am very grateful that we were able to hear the news at the same time, in the same room.

I was shaking so much at this stage that I couldn't even dial the numbers on the phone...or remember what P's mobile number was!!! When I did phone P he was with someone at work.. I very calmly (I think!) asked him to excuse himself for a moment, which he did. As soon as he said he was outside of the consultation room I just said "This is it...it's time...come home". He then let some not-very-fatherly 4 letter words slip out, and told me he would have to finish his consult and then could be home in 30 minutes.

I hung up and then raced around the house - I asked (very hurridly and probably not too politely) the fellow who cleans our house to leave - NOW - as I wanted to be alone. I don't think he knew what to do!! I got my "Lucky Mama" Tshirt on, put some makeup on and set up the video camera. The bloody tripod broke as I was setting it up - but more 4 letter words and some quick improvisation with phone books got that sorted. I set up the dinig table with tissues (of course), the list of questions we had prepared the day before, some nice paper for P to write down the details of the call on, and P's special pen (a 40th birthday present from his gorgeous family).

My darling husband arrived a mere 30 minutes after I called him (during which time he performed a minor procedure on someone, finish his consult, got back to his office, let staff know he was leaving, arranged for someone to cover for him, get to the carpark and drove the 15 minutes home).

We checked that the video camera was working (thank you L and S for the loan!!!) and then phoned the adoption department.....we then got given the information that will change our lives forever.

We have a son.
We are parents.
We have a son.

I'm crying again as I type those magical words.

We are so blessed.