Thursday, November 2, 2006 ------- It's 3:00am and I tell myself....NO, you are not getting up to check the CCAA website to see if the referral date has changed, you just checked it a couple of hours ago before going to bed. Eddie is working but I know he is as anxious to hear that the referrals are being or have been sent to Children's Hope from China as I am..........I can't believe now that I was able to fall back asleep, but by 5: 45am I was up, out of bed and checking the website and I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING!!!!!! IT HAD CHANGED, IT HAD CHANGED.......OUR REFERRAL IS COMING!!!!!!!! I kept reading and looking at it over & over....I called Eddie and got he's voice mail.....CALL ME!!! THE DATE HAS CHANGED AND OUR REFERRAL IS ON IT'S WAY. TODAY JUST MIGHT BE THE DAY WE FINALLY HEAR, "IT'S A GIRL"!!! I called my dad (he was still working, I didn't get him). I then called Mom or did she call me????? I know that she too had been watching the China web-page were they record what referrals were sent out. But anyway, we were so excited......still, we would have to wait a few more hours, hoping and praying that DHL would deliver a package to Children's Hope today. So......gotta get ready and go to work. Everyone at First National Bank was so excited to hear that today might be the day. They all have been so supportive of Eden's adoption. I kept checking the CHI chat-group e-mails and by now Ann (Director of the China Program) had reported the date change on the referrals and as soon as the delivery service came, she would e-mail again. By 10:00-10:30am we knew for sure that THEY WERE HERE!!!! CHI would be calling within a couple of hours with information on our little girl, so I needed to get home. At 12:20pm, we received the call from Vonda at CHI..........YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL WAITING FOR YOU IN FENGCHENG CITY, JIANGXI, CHINA. HER NAME IS, "FENG, LIAN ER " AND SHE WAS BORN ON JAN. 10, 2006..........CHI would overnight our referral package to us, the picture(s) will be in that, but Vonda did send one picture of Eden to us by e-mail. She said that it was a copy, so it might not be too clear. She was right, you couldn't tell to much about her. I wanted to wait until Eddie & I both could see it so I didn't open it at first, but Eddie had talked me into opening it. He also said to share it with our families (and friends & co-workers at the bank). He kept reminding me that tomorrow we, together would be looking at the "real" pictures. My mom came over and stayed the night with me. She would be going with me tomorrow to meet Eddie at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center in London, KY and then we, Eddie & I together would open the Referral of our daughter. We would see her face for the first time together.
The picture above was taken on this day one year ago by a good friend and co-worker, Tammy Aaron (Thank You Tammy!! I'm so glad that I have this picture!!). I had already talked with Eddie and I was now talking to my parents and my mother-in-law, telling them that I was on my way home, the agency would be calling very soon.
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