Fun Poll

Honeydew1894

I love the "Where were you" questions when it comes to important events...SO, where were you when you got THE CALL?

jewele803

I was at work...my DH called to tell me SW was on the phone.  He conferenced me in and I went to another desk to take the call so my co-workers could not see and hear everything.  At that point, we knew we were the only family BM would meet with!! 

Our SW was on maternity leave but came back to make this call, b/c "it's the best part of her job"...which we really appreciated too!

lisanjay

I had worked a flight from Seattle to St. Louis. We had just landed. I called my husband and I could just tell that he had NEWS! I aksed him what was going on and he said a lot...I said "we were matched" really quietly. He said yes! And I just burtst into tears, right there on the airplane. I was flying with one of my friends and she just hugged me and started crying too.

 

I still tear up when I think about this.

-Stephanie-

At work for the 2 that didn't "stick."

At home sitting in the basement with hubby when the "sticky match" call came in.

517butterfly

I was at work when we got the call to pick up DD.  DH walked in with a vase of roses and plainly said, "Let's go pick up our daughter."  We then proceeded to burst into tears and hug.  Now I'm all teary eyed!

mom2one

I found out we had been chosen as J's adoptive family while DH was at a job interview and DS and I were hanging out at home. DS and I jumped around and screamed for a while then sent a picture to DH's cell phone entitled "Look at our new son!" and he called me when he got out of the interview and cried. It was beautiful.

ryannat

The first call for the non-sticky match I was in my office at work.

Second, stick match I was in the elevator leaving work. I stood in the garage of my office builidng for about 10 minutes talking to the SW. After she finished telling me about the BM the SW asked why I was so quiet. I guess it was because I was standing in the middle of a garage and I was still nervous from the match that didn't work out. The next day after talking to my DH about the call I called the SW back and had a lot of questions and was excited and more chatty.

*Erin&Mike*

I was at work....sitting at my desk-I was kind of expecting a call because the SW told me she would call and let me know how it went with BM regardless of what she decided.  However, SW didn't think BM would make a decision right than and there-but she did. 

When the phone rang and I saw who it was-my heart started to race...I will never forget: "Erin...this is Jen with ***....I have some very exciting news for you.  She picked you.  And then immediately the tears started flowing and before I knew it-the social worker was crying to. 

Amy720

The first agency we used e-,mailed us after the match. This match fail through.

Here's how the call went down about Ben:

We were sitting at home getting ready to go see the Atlanta Braves that evening.  We got a call from our facilitator asking us to look at a situation they sent us through an e-mail.It was a situation where the baby was already born. This was about 1:00 PM If we wanted to pursue this, we would be the only family.  The BM wanted a family there the next day to take the baby home from the hospital.  We looked at the situation and talked about it for let's say 5 seconds...LOL! and called them back and said what do we need to do next.  We had to go to the bank and get the money (my mom let us use their equity line until my CD came due that my grandmother had given me) and then we went home and packed. 

They called us back around 3:00 and said to head on out.  It was going to be a 12 hour drive.  We stopped at Wal-Mart for a few baby essentials and then started driving.  We arrived around 5 AM and we were at the hospital the same day at 11:00 AM to meet our son.  We went from not being parents to holding our baby in less than 24 hours.  We stayed about 10 days before we were able to come home.  I still get emotional just thinking about this.

GLynn2009

The call about DD needing a home in the bed late at night ight before Thanksgiving.

The call that everything was approved and we really could adopt from Canada at work and I acted goofy when I got the news. Then I called DH and he was all calm.

LadyRed7

this is great to read the responses. I think to myself where will i be? LOL

babywisher

I was at work for the first match. By the time I was finished with the call everyone knew what was going on b/c I was crying so much! The second match I was at home still asleep. The phone rang and I ran to get it. It was the agency telling me good news and bad news. Our first bm had gone awall, but the now have another bm that had chosen us and the new baby is due 2 months sooner! It was so surreal! This brings back all the emotions!