One Week Down and a Lifetime to Go!

It's good to reflect on the fact that we learned about our birth mom and our new addition just one week ago. That tells me that it was exactly one week ago the last time I slept. I know it's not healthy. I know that you have to eat and sleep and be rested to embark on this journey, but this is unreal. It's physically impossible. Now I know why birth moms are always so tired. It's not the physiology of carrying a baby, it's the mental activity around the life change that keeps them up all night!

Luckily for my mind, but unluckily for my body and soul, Josh is working out of town this week. That means that I've been able to stay up mentally planning and barely eating without getting into trouble. :-) I was going to get the house entirely cleaned to show it off to our Aunt and Uncle next week, but there's baby planning to be done! C'mon, you can't blame me. They'll understand.

Friends are starting to put together a Welcome Home Party and we're learning more and more about what our trip to California will look like. Our birth mom is meeting with an attorney in California today to see if she feels good about working with her. If she does, then our agency can start to get a lot of questions answered about what needs to happen for us to bring the baby home. And, we'll probably just dream up a lot more questions in the process.

We've had some really touching correspondence with our birth mom this week, too. She shared with us that she'd like to hold the baby first because we get to hold her for a lifetime. But, she'd like us to be there during delivery so that we can share with our little girl how much she loves her. All we can think about is how much she loves her, how selfless she is, and how much this is going to hurt all of us emotionally. We can only hope to be supportive enough for her, but we're going to try our hardest. We're preparing for a bittersweet introduction to our little girl. We'll be ecstatic, but her birth mom might be broken hearted. Luckily, we really love talking with her and we can share all of our thoughts with each other as we move through this.

Keep your thoughts, love beams, prayers, good vibes coming our way. We're counting down to blast off on our biggest adventure yet!