This is the start of your sweet little story. The part where your page meets ours. No matter where your tale takes you, our story will always read Love!
Once we arrived at Aunt Laura's house, I felt a bit rude, but I NEEDED to see the website and what it was all about. In the email from the agency, they told us how to access it as a "user". Even though we could not make changes, we could see how many people visited our profile!
Telling us that we can see the profile view count, is, in my opinion, like giving a woman a due date when she is pregnant! It really means nothing, just gives you something else to obsess about.
Greg and I decided we would not tell anyone about the websites...after all, we (I) wanted the count to be accurate and not just our friends and family looking at the page. So this is where my obsession began, right there in Aunt Laura's kitchen on our vacation to get on with our lives!
I would check that site every hour....Oh look, 2 people visited. Now 9 people. Now 17 people. By the time we got in the car on Sunday to drive back home, we had 22 views. Greg finally says to me, "what does that mean to you?" Well, I hadn't thought about that. I guess it means that 22 people looked at our profile, and 22 people didn't like us because we hadn't received a call. So it became our joke. "How many people don't like us today?"
By November 3, 2013, 8 days after our website was "live", we had 49 people that didn't like us. I was frustrated. Realistically, I know that it can take years to adopt, but in my heart, I kept thinking about the photos on the website, the letters, our biography....what is it about us that birth moms don't like. We are probably too old!
I talked to my mom that night on the phone and voiced my frustration. And in true Kiley fashion, she said, "Just wait, it will probably be that 50th person that falls in love with you!"
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