We have news. Finally. After months of silence and waiting and anxiety and feeling all sorts of other feels... we have news.
It came via email as I brushed my teeth yesterday morning. I got an alert that I had an email from our agency on my phone, and I felt ZERO urgency in reading it. I was assuming it would be another email checking in to see how we were handling the wait, and I just didn't want to allow myself to go there again. I finished up getting ready and decided to see what they had to say. Within the first line of the email, I knew. This was the news we have been waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for! It took about three more seconds before I literally fell to my knees crying the happiest tears I have ever cried. And it was an ugly cry. Unfortunately for Claire and Nora, they had to witness my pitifulness, and they were NOT impressed. Nora yelled "stop crying mom!" per her usual bossiness, and Claire was so concerned that her mother was having a complete breakdown in front of her that she just stood silently with her arms around me. I was finally able to mutter the words "brother is coming home" to the girls, and they started an equally historical happy dance around me as I sat in a puddle of my own tears in the hallway. I can honestly say that I have cried the ugly cry better than any of those actresses on Grey's Anatomy. Take that, Meredith Grey.
What I learned from the email (that I can share), is that we are expected to receive the High Court Order in mid-June, and will be traveling to Hong Kong to pick up OUR SON (!) in late June - early July. We are so excited, relieved, happy, anxious and ready! We get to meet him via Skype in the coming days, which comes with its own set of emotions.
We have about $3,500 to raise before we leave, so if any of our friends or family have any awesome, easy, profitable fundraising ideas we could do in the next month, let me know! That's not asking too much, right? ;-) The easiest way to help us is to help spread the word, though. Our tax deductible fundraising site is:
www.reecesrainbow.org/sponsorembry
We can only fundraise with Reece's Rainbow until we go on our trip (even though our legal costs continue after we are home), so we are going to try very hard to get the final amount raised before then. Our friends and families have been so great in supporting us through this process, and we know we couldn't have made it this far without all of you good people! In a few short weeks, we will have a son, and he will have a family (complete with two crazy little sisters). It's so bittersweet to think this process is coming to an end, but we have lots left to accomplish before we become a family. If you're still reading, thanks for hanging in there with us these last two years. But.. I can assure you- our story is really just beginning.
