It's been a really long time since I've blogged and there have been a lot of really exciting things I wanted to share! As you all know, we are matched with a birth mother and anxiously awaiting the arrival of Baby Pearson:) Here's some of the highlights of the last few months....
We completed our Home Study back in April and it went great! I love our social worker! She made the whole thing very easy and stress free. Well not completely stress free...I was a little neurotic leading up to the whole thing:) She was running late and so I was literally pacing our living room and jumping every time a car drove by. Tyler compared me to a dog waiting for it's owners to come home with the way I was watching the window. But as soon as Pam got here I relaxed. A few hours and some very personal questions later we were all done and officially in the 2nd trimester of adoption (that's what we like to call it)
The next step was to make our profile book. Oh the profile book! I thought I would enjoy making it but it sucked the life out of me. It's a lot of pressure to "advertise" yourself as the right family to give your baby to. Felt so weird. And it took foreeeevvvvveeerrrr!! I spent weeks with lots of late nights obsessing over every picture and paragraph. Ugh I shudder just thinking about having to make it. I was so relieved when I finally finished it.
Despite the stress of making the profile book, some great things happened in our 2nd trimester. I got to go on a girls weekend with 5 of my best friends from college. Seriously love these girls. We do an annual girls trip and this year we stayed at a condo on New Smyrna beach. It was a great weekend filled with lots of Glee karaoke, the beach and catching up. One of the best parts for me was a very special gift they all made for the baby. They each wrote a letter/prayer for the baby and put it together in a book for me and Tyler. I was a hot crying mess when they gave it to me! I couldn't even read it. I had to wait until I was alone so I wouldn't be too embarrassed with my ugly crying and need to reread it 5 times because I loved it so much. I think it meant so much to me because it showed me that even though I'm not pregnant, this baby feels just as real to them as it does to me. The book is currently displayed in the nursery awaiting Baby Pearson. Can't wait to show the baby how loved it is by all it's "Aunts" (BTW feels really weird calling it an "it")
A very very happy occasion not related to to our adoption but still a huge highlight was my big brother's wedding!! Kyle and Dara are married! We've all been waiting for this to happen for a very long time:) Before the wedding my mom and I flew out to Denver to pick up Dara and drive her down to Florida. Not everyone can go on a road trip with their mom and sister-in-law and honestly say it was a great time! I hope to post pics on Facebook soon. The whole wedding weekend was a blast! I loved watching my big brother get married and to top it off, he married one of my best friends:) My favorite part was hearing Kyle's personal vows to Dara (he sure knows how to make a sister cry) and at the end of the reception when all the guests circled around Kyle and Dara singing and swaying to "Piano Man". Perfect moment.
It was during the wedding weekend that I started getting emails from our social worker of a possible birth mother she wanted to show our profile to. This birth mother was already matched with a family but the family was considering backing out. I tried not to think about it or let it distract me from the weekend but it was definitely on my mind! On Monday we get a call that the family officially backed out of the adoption so our social worker wanted to show our profile book to the birth mother.....the only problem was that our profile book hadn't come in yet! I had literally just finished and ordered it the week before. I quickly tracked the shipping and discovered that it'd be arriving to us on Tuesday. After we get it (and take a moment to pray over it) we put it right back in the mail and overnight it to the birth mother Wednesday morning. She receives it Thursday and on Friday we get the call that she loved us and we were officially matched!! I seriously had whiplash! I still can't believe how quickly it happened. I will forever remember standing in the parking lot of Tyler's work hovering over the phone as we got to hear that we're getting a baby. It was our version of staring at a little stick with pee on it.
We waited to put it on facebook until after we met our birth mother a few weeks later but loved telling all our close friends and family the exciting news. This baby is very blessed to have so many people excited about it's arrival. We feel so blessed by the community we have around us. I want to share more but this blog has gotten crazy long and it's crazy late. I'll post more tomorrow:)
