If you looked up requirements for adoption (as if it were a job), STRENGTH would be required. The strength to give and the strength to receive. The strength to know that even though there is heartbreak....there is HOPE.
First of all, let me start out by saying Happy Birthday to my dad in heaven. I hope you are having a wonderful birthday!
Secondly, this last 10 days has taught me that maybe I am in the wrong profession- I should be a therapist! At least that is what I have been doing more hours that my actual job!
All is still going according to plan...whatever the plan may be! Our new birth mom, Aysoni, is so much different than Sarah. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. With Sarah, we had to wonder if she would make her once a week call. That was really the only time we talked to her. With Aysoni, we don't have to worry! I have talked/text with her more in the last 10 days than I talked to Sarah total in the 3 months we knew her. She text me one day for 9 hours straight!!! Once I was done texting her, then she called me! Then Greg fixed me some "calming" hot tea and all was right with the world! She just needs a friend, I have decided! And I am very happy to be that friend! And as Taylen says, "Mom, she just wants to be able to trust you!" True, very true! Our thoughts on the situation are this: if this works out, we are obviously going to be over the moon, but if it doesn't, clearly Aysoni needed a friend to guide her and hopefully help her get on the right track. I would like to think I helped in that! She is very nice and very sweet. I have even talked to her 5 year old son...such a polite young man! He even just won a fish at a school fair and named one of them "Jami". Not sure how I feel about that!:-)
And for those who are wondering...Sarah had her baby boy on Feb 2. When she told me it was a little bit of a punch in the stomach, but I was so happy to hear that she was doing well and the baby (all 8 lbs of him) was doing well, also! I congratulated her and let her know we were here for her if she needed anything. At the time she told me about the baby, he did not have a name yet and birth dad was not there for the delivery, but yet still doesn't want her to give him up. I will never understand!
Tre' is still loving Disney and Taylen is just finishing up his wrestling season! He just finished 4th at the tournament yesterday and his last meet is Tuesday! Always busy at this house!
Go USA!
