She signed :)

Wow, what an emotional disaster this has been! I am sooo glad that our relationship is so strong and that the two of us can lean on each other or else I don't know what I would have done. Being so far away from everything familiar is really hard too.

The social worker drove back up here to meet with the birth mother again this afternoon with the forms that were not signed the first time, including the waiver. The first meeting had taken over 2 hours and resulted in forms not getting signed in the end. This time I got a text from the social worker 20 minutes past 12pm saying that everything was completed.

Now the adoption will become irrevocable at 5pm tomorrow PST. 11 1/2 hours to go :) I have refrained from posting any pictures until it is irrevocable, so hang in there. Tomorrow evening you will get bombarded with cuteness :)

The other good news is that she signed additional forms that the state of Wisconsin doesn't really require, but is nice to have. These forms apparently make the process go quicker. They were sent in tonight by Fed Ex. There is still a small chance we get to go home and get our "real" lives started on Saturday. They will keep us posted and let us know how it is going. This step is completely out of our agency's control, so we just have to keep waiting.

This entire becoming a parent journey has been a lesson in patience and waiting without going crazy, I swear. Each step just involves more and more waiting and allowing things to move forward from the first attempts to get pregnant, through the fertility trials and into the beginnings of the adoption process, to being matched to present. It is definitely not for the faint of heart.

I had read once on another blog that I follow that if you could see the entire journey before you started, would you have the nerve to even begin it? It was an intriguing question to me and one that I have kept going back to. The answer in this case is a resounding - YES! Wyatt is worth every tear, every held breath, every moment of tense waiting. I wouldn't skip knowing him for the world.

Hang in there with us a little longer please!!!