Well, here goes our first blog post. We're setting this up in hopes of keeping our family and friendly informed of life as parents. After going through the entire adoption process (about 6 months) and waiting for about 8 eight months, we've been matched with a birth mother. Since this has been a very exciting week, we'll quickly give a run down. Monday - October 22, 2007 - Tobias returns home from a brief underway period Tuesday - October 23, 2007 - Jim, Tobias' dad, finds out he'll need surgery to treat prostate cancer. Rough news, but the cancer was caught early! It was also my birthday. Wednesday - October 24, 2007, about 3pm - I get an email from our social worker telling me to call her ASAP! It turns out a birth mother has picked us! Friday - October 25, 2007 - We met the birth mother, and we both feel comfortable with each other. Basically, right now we're just waiting for our baby to be born. Our birth mother will still need to make her final decision aft...
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