REFERRAL at 15 weeks!!!

Hi everyone,

I know I almost never post here, but getting our referral seems like something worth my while! We got the call yesterday from Natalie, 5 weeks sooner than expected, for a baby girl! She's almost 4 months old and in perfect health. We are so excited!

The Call:
I was coming out of the bank with Evan and when we got strapped into the car I was going to make a call while Evan watched Elmo in the back. I saw that there was a message from an unknown number. Of course I thought that it could be Natalie, but I REALLY didn't expect it to be her. I listened to the message and all she said was to call her back. So I did, and the first thing I said was, "Hi, this is Jen Cantwell. You've GOT to be shitting me!!!" And she laughed and said no, that she had our referral! She asked about conferencing in Brian but I was in the car and that wouldn't do much good. She told me her age only and that she'd call me back at home in ten minutes so we could conference him in.

And so began a drive home that was very blurry. I have the flu, I should mention, and so there we flew down San Pablo Avenue, Elmo blaring, cell phone being used in ways that are the reason it will soon be illegal to use a cell phone in a car. I stopped calling Brian when I realized that I couldn't actually text him while driving and with a toddler in the back and had a rare moment of clarity that I was literally a block away from home and that the text message could wait.

When I got home I called Brian's friend, John, at work, but I had forgotten that John was out on paternity leave. So then again, the front desk to try to track him down (ILM doesn't have a paging system, the bastards). But then Brian got the idea when he realized that he had messages on every phone he owned and called me back just moments before Natalie called again (that was a short ten minutes, Natalie!). She sent us the pictures and medical reports and the rest is history!

So now we wait again. We're hoping that the outside wait is 3 months (hoping, hoping, hoping) before we travel. We will post as we go along (at least in theory we will!).

I hope this finds everyone well!