The Call

I need to write about this before I forget. Last Tuesday was the final day of our school field day. The last day is always crazy. The entire student body is piled into the gym for the 3-5 grade tug-a-war. Our P.E. teacher has an entire system worked out with brackets and everything....... it is crazy. Anyway I was in the gym watching the tug-a-war when our school secretary Jane came in the gym looking for me. She put her one hand on each of my arms and said, “ Your adoption agency is on the phone, run, run, run!!” I must have stood there for a split second because she had to tell me to run more than once! I didn’t expect our agency to get a new waiting childrens' list until some time in July. They had just sent a request in May for a new group of children. Needless to say I bolted out of the gym. The other special education teacher ran after me because she thought that one of my students had flipped. (I have a very strong student who has some pretty significant behavior issues and she figured I was going to need some back up!)

I was shaking when I picked up the phone. Ashley from Living Hope sweetly informed me that they had just received a new list of children and that there were two babies available. I don’t remember much of what she said except where Sophie was from and how old she was. I got off the phone and seriously I was shaking. I was talking to Jane and our school nurse when it hit me that I needed to call Chris!! Chris was very calm, of course, and was asking me all kinds of questions that I couldn’t remember the answers to because I was freaking out! I called Ashley back and she told me that there was something in English in Sophie’s file and did I want her to fax it to me, she also asked if I wanted her to email me Sophie’s picture. Ummmm….......YES!!

Thankfully it was the end of the day and Hannah and I headed over to Chris’s office with the information Ashley had faxed and to check email for Sophie’s picture. Sophie’s SN is something that we had said from the beginning that we could handle, but before we opened the picture I had to ask Chris first if he was sure. We both knew once we saw the picture it would be more difficult not to accept the file if her medical concerns were more than we thought we could handle. Chris clicked on Sophie ‘s picture and there was our little girl, no doubt about it…..