a match!

I got the phone call that I've been waiting for today! A potential match!

I've been thinking about this a lot in the last week. I finished nursing Briggs and I knew that was the last big step before being matched, and I also know that since my application has been in for a while, they have had a lot of time to think about who we would match well with. Let's see how many times I can say match in this blog post.

Last week, I emailed LeeAnn, my wonderful contact at our agency, and let her know that I was done nursing. I hoped that she would email back right away like "great, now here's your match!" but unsurprisingly, she didn't. Earlier this week, I thought to myself wouldn't it be weird and cool to get a match on Briggs's birthday? And then I kind of forgot about it because we have a lot going on this weekend. 

This morning, I made myself a list of things to do before Kameron got home so that we could celebrate our new 1 year old without having to worry about things that needed to be done. I took the big kids in for a haircut, went to Target, went to the grocery store, came home and made lunch, blah blah blah. I started to unload the dishwasher and my phone rang and the caller ID said Hope (thank you, past self, for putting their number in your phone so that you'd answer when they called). I started shaking immediately. 

I chatted with Mary and LeeAnn, 2/3 of the powers that be at Hope (our agency). They let me know that they had an exciting potential match for us and shared some details and asked what I thought. I told them to go ahead and pass on our info to the IPs because they sound great! I don't want to share much more than that yet, since our match is not official, and likely,  the IPs have not even received our information. But once it is official (and assuming they are okay with it), I'll be back to share more! 

For now, the IPs will receive all of our information- what we are looking for in our IPs and relationship, our beliefs, a letter that I wrote to them when I applied, and some background info on our family. They will let the agency know if they'd like to move forward or not, and if they do, we will schedule a match meeting to meet in person!

Keep your fingers crossed for us!

One year ago today-  happy birthday baby Briggs!