We Leave Tomorrow

We leave tomorrow after lunch for San Antonio. We have tentatively scheduled a meeting with Olivia's birth mother for tomorrow night. I am anxious to get that over with. She expressed an interest in seeing her when we spoke a few weeks ago (the first time in over two months). So we have offered to meet tomorrow night since we will be in town. We are supposed to call her to confirm that today. I know that this will be hard for me, but I also know that it is very healthy for Olivia and for her birth mother. We can take new pictures again of us all together, like we did when she was born. I hope that someday Olivia will appreciate our efforts to keep her birth mother involved and informed of her well being.

Then we are off to court on Tuesday to finalize the adoption. Our last home study went well last week and our social worker gave us the low down on court. She said the whole thing lasts less then five minutes and the judge will usually let the family take pictures with him or her. That will be a great picture for the scrap book. I am looking forward to my week off between quarters at school so that I can get to work on Olivia's book. I have been collecting pieces, but haven't started yet.

Tuesday night we have a small party planned at my Mom's house. My Mom and sister, Lee Ann, have really worked hard to put it together and we are so honored. It will be nice to celebrate and breathe a sigh of relief at long last. I can't believe how far we have come since November of 2006 when we started this process. It was too much to imagine then. We couldn't have gone forward with it without the support of our dear friends Kay and Andrew Roberts in Florida who gave us living example of adoption in action--as well as--all of the support from our friends around the world who helped us raise our adoption fees. I wish you could all be at the party on Tuesday night.

I'll post pictures of the big event later next week!

God bless!