It was smaller than what you see here, all pixelated and blurry, but something about that little face kept drawing me back over and over. It was just a few days after we submitted our preliminary application to our agency; we hadn't even been approved or signed a contract, but for every day for two weeks I went and looked at this beautiful little boy. His profile was short with very little detail -- something to the extent of "Mason is an affectionate little boy who thrives on attention from adults. He has the diagnosis of cerebral palsy." That's it. Still, I couldn't get him out of my head.
I messaged my mom one cold November day. I said "Mom, I can't stop going to look at this little boy on Bethany Christian Service's waiting child list. I think he might be our son. Dan's going to kill me."
For those of you don't know my husband personally, I'll tell you this -- He's a planner. At the beginning of this adoption, just two weeks before this message to my mom, we had been thinking the process of adopting for the second time would take two or three years.
Dan had made an outline of how we were going to pay for our adoption, from saving to fundraisers to grants to a loan, and now there I was looking at a child who's waiting for a family. I didn't know a lot about waiting child adoption at that time, but I knew it'd go a lot faster than three years and throw a wrench into Dan's plan.
That afternoon I pulled "Mason's" profile up on my iPad and handed it to Dan and said "I've been thinking a lot about this guy. Would it be okay for me to ask for more info about him? No pressure. No obligation. Just more info." Dan surprised me by immediately saying "OK."
So, on November 25, 2013 I sent this message to our social worker "Is it possible to get any more info on a child on the "Waiting Children" page, such as where they're located, etc? Specifically, I'm wondering about “Mason."
Part 2 coming soon.
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