Last Friday, we received information that our home study was finalized.
Tomorrow, we are scheduled for our final interview before officially being in the race to find a birth mother.
Last night, we received the final prints of our birth mother letters. The package came from a printing press in California. We signed about 150 letters before deciding to quit and give carpal tunnel syndrome a rest. The adoption agency requires us to submit 100 signed letters for distribution to potential birth mothers. Never have I been so excited to see a cardboard box on a dolly go out of Office Depot and into a UPS truck!
Tomorrow, the agency will receive our letters. Just in time for the interview.
Today, in the clinic, I brought 5 letters with me. I already gave three out. One of them was to a patient's sister's friend, who is 20 years old and who is in her 3rd pregnancy. She terminated the last two pregnancies and plans to terminate this one, too. I gave them our birth mother letter, explaining that there are a lot of parents out there who want to have a child.
I hope and pray that she decides to have her baby and give a gift to a deserving couple. A lot of us take this for granted... the gift of being able to bear a child. More power to women!
