The Stork Has Landed. We Have A Daughter!

Our Seeking Confirmation Letter arrived today at 3:04 p.m! This is our official referral. We have a daughter! We were notified yesterday that it was going to come today so I took off work, got up early to walk the pup, took a quick shower and plopped myself down on the front porch bench at 7:50 a.m. to wait for the UPS delivery. There was no way we were going to wait inside to hear the doorbell ring. They are too quick to drop and run. One or both of us was out on that porch all day long. The videocamera was on the tripod and the digital camera was ready to be attached to the tripod so we could jump into the shot. Sitting out there we looked like we were waiting for a parade to go by or that we had a beef with the neighbors about the mailbox or something and were waiting to catch someone in the act of doing something because the videocamera pointed in that direction all day. We went through a variety of weather changes in the course of 7 hours on the front porch from multiple layers and blankets to T-shirts and back again.

We jumped at anything that sounded like a truck. Four rounds of school buses, garbage truck going up one side of the street and down the other, landscapers, and even Fed Ex. But no UPS. Finally, at 3:04 p.m., I shouted, "Truck. It's here," and we sprung into action. T turned on the video, and I hopped down to the truck with the camera shouting to the two drivers, "Our daughter is in that package!" We told them we had been waiting 38 long months for that package. I hugged each of them twice. They were so happy for us and happy to get in our pictures. I know it made their day. It certainly did for us.

Shout it from the rooftops. We have a daughter!