getting matched with Mo, part 4

After Wednesday our world settled down some, which was a good thing because I was EXHAUSTED! I hadn't slept good. I mean how can you sleep when you see the face of your son and he's half a world away (let's just say it will be a long next few months!)

Nick and I spent the rest of the week just mulling things over. Well, Nick did, my mind was made up!

I emailed the neurosonogram and MRI findings to another friend, Rick Johnson. He and his wife are also new friends in our adoption group.

Can I just say how great God is to surround us with these new friends!

Rick looked them over and said basically the same thing we had been hearing but said he would also look at the original films for us when they arrived from Korea.

So the rest of the week ended somewhat peacefully.

Over the weekend, Nick and I had a talk about him and Nick said,
I think he is our son!
So it was official!!!

We started calling our family to share the news with them. They were all so excited and so surprised that it happened so fast.

On Monday morning, I called Erin at Holt and told her we would like to be considered as his parents. Erin emailed me some more questionnaires to fill out and get back with her. More questionnaires...... yep!

Their selection committee meets every Thursday, so of course I was really wanting to get our stuff together to be presented at that Thursday's meeting. I couldn't stand to wait another week!

I got all questionnaires answered and emailed back to Erin on Monday night.

She called Tuesday morning and said we would need to do a phone interview with Jessica in the waiting child program. Jessica called shortly later and we set up our interview for later that afternoon.

I headed to Nick's office and we had a conference call with Jessica. The call lasted about an hour. We just discussed the things we had answered in our questionnaire, some specifics about the baby and other things.

Jessica said she would not have to present our file to the selection committee, that since we were the only family that she could just discuss things with the director of the waiting child program, Abbie. She said she and Abbie would meet in the morning and she would give me a call.

Tuesday night we had a meeting with our The Call 1:27 group, our orphan care ministry. We shared our news with them and his picture. They were so excited for us and prayed for us and our son.

Holt is 2 hours behind us, so I knew it would be at least lunch before Jessica called. Let's just say it was a LONG morning. Finally about 4:30 she called. She said that it would be tomorrow before we had an answer. I was in shock, that wasn't at all what I was expecting to hear. I was just like um, ok. But of course, as soon as I hung up I thought of all the things I should have asked her, starting with - why will it be tomorrow?

I was a tad, ok a lot, disappointed. I mean I had already planned out our son's life and now I was doubting if they were even going to match him with us! It was awful! It was the worst feeling....