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Since I had convinced myself that it was too soon to even start thinking about adopting again, I put the notion of starting back up on the back burner. I went about my daily life and tried to forget about the opportunity that had been presented to us. I wasn’t too successful. About a month after that fateful email came, I sauntered into our living room and popped the question to my husband. I asked him “What if I just email ACS (Asian Children Services, our agency) and find out if there are any spots left for families on the list?” I tried to tell myself that we weren’t committing to anything by just asking, but of course we were, and I think we both knew it! He thought it was a very good idea, and so I ran off to email my tip of the iceberg question.

I got a response back almost immediately and opened that email with my heart pounding and found out that there were indeed two spots left. I went back and forth with our agency’s director, talking about how to know if it’s the right time to add to your family, asking if I was crazy for feeling overwhelmed and scared, and resolved to give it some time, discuss it with my husband and get back to her with our decision. It wound up being a very easy decision to make. My better half was enthusiastically on board, especially considering our wait would be approximately twelve to fifteen months or so. We were at the end of the list, so our wait would probably be on the longer end of that spectrum. That would put Ella at about three years old; just what we had hoped for. So that sealed the deal and we officially added our names to the list to adopt another child from Viet Nam.

Continued in the next post…

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