Adoption post

How I wish the title could be written backwards: Post-Adoption.  Won’t that be a great day?!

I can’t believe we’ve been a “Waiting Family” for 90 days.  Ninety looooooong days.  I’d be lying if I said that waiting for that phone call doesn’t’ cross my mind a good 90 times an hour.  It does.  It TOTALLY does.  I try to pray about it anytime I think about it, asking God for patience, but also letting Him know that we’re ready, too!  Ha! As if He doesn't know already.

I always wonder how we will receive that magical call. Unless you’ve been through the adoption wait, you probably can’t relate to this level of crazy, but I constantly come up with all the different scenarios and how it might play out.

Maybe I’ll be at work and miss the call.  Our social worker will call Adam, who will then call work and I won't be at my desk so they have me paged over the intercom.  I’ll be all caught off guard and break into tears in the middle of the office when Adam gets to share the good news with me.

Maybe it will be a day that the house is a disaster and I haven’t left my pajamas.  And the laundry is piled high, the yard needs mowed and the house needs cleaned.

Or maybe it will happen this fall, while we are at my dad's for Thanksgiving, surrounded by family.

Or maybe the call will come on an ordinary, boring day, where we’re just going through the motions and receiving our “matched” call is the furthest thing from my mind.

The truth is that in the back of my mind – and sometimes in the forefront – is the thought that every passing day was supposed to be the day.  But then it wasn’t and I’m back to wondering whether the next day will be the day.  Sigh.  I wonder if it ever gets easier?

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And, for those who’ve asked, we’re doing a domestic infant adoption. The agency says that placements usually occur anywhere from 6 months to 2 years after the completion of the home study (which we’ve completed), but, of course, it could happen at any time.  I’m faithful that God knows the best time for it to happen for us, but I’m only human and can’t help but wonder when that time will be!