The force is strong …

For much of the month of December I was in full on “fanboy” mode in full preparation for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

My ticket for the 7pm showing on Thursday the 17th was purchased months and anticipation was high. As I sat in the IMAX theatre awaiting for the opening music and text crawl I was not sure how I could possibly be any happier …. and then my phone rang.

It was 20 minutes until the movie started (of course I was in my seat super early, it was STAR WARS!!!) and I recognized the number as belonging to Bethany Christian Services, our adoption agency. I quickly answered the phone, after all for them to be calling after 5pm meant I likely wanted to hear what they had to say.

Even as I answered the phone my mind was racing … A few weeks earlier we had met with a birth mother and although the meeting was different than we expected we left fairly optimistic. Unfortunately we never heard anything else from that birthmother and with the ringing phone I was wondering if perhaps she had shown back up. Even as Carrie, our case worker, began to speak I was thinking that Kayla was going to have to come pick me up from the movie theatre.

That however was not the case. Instead, Carrie told me that there was a birthmother in the Tri-Cities area who wanted to meet with us as soon as possible. This birthmother was very excited to meet us and “was the first and only people she wanted to meet with”. I listened with pure excitement as Carrie went over some of the details of the birth mother. I was trying my best to remember everything but asked Carrie to follow up with an e-mail (I knew Kayla would want all the details).

I immediately told Carrie that we wanted to meet with the mother and that Tuesday would work fine for us (the mother’s selected date). After hanging up with Carrie I called Kayla … she didn’t answer. So I text Kayla (about a hundred times) and kept calling her. Finally, with only 5 minutes to spare until the movie started she replied to the good news.

A 6:00 pm on 12/17 the most exciting thing on my mind was watching the new Star Wars movie. By 6:30 the most exciting thing on my mind was getting to meet a birth mother the next week. By 7:00pm I had a huge smile on my mind as I relived the joy of childhood (watching Star Wars) and look forward to the future.

So … how did that meeting go? I will blog about it shortly.