CAC Senior Consultant Tracie Loux wanted to congratulate?Chris and Hannah as well as share their story in Hannah’s words…
So one minute you?re sweeping the floors and the next you?re finding out you might have a baby.
Well, that was our Thursday night, anyway.
The agency called us about a baby girl that had been born the day before. I mean, normally with adoption, you have at least a few weeks to prepare. But she was already here!
At midnight we got the confirmation that her birth mom had picked us to be her family and we needed to be on a plane to Utah the?next day. So that was the end of sleeping.
Do you know how much you can get done on a surge of adrenalin at midnight? I cleaned the bathroom while Chris contacted our friend to see if she could watch the kids. I packed clothes while Chris ran to Wal-Mart to get last minute essentials. I made TO DO lists while Chris booked a flight. I did laundry while Chris did the dishes.
And then we laid in bed, wide awake.
Because we were getting a baby in less than 24 hours. A BABY, people!
Since we were running on about 2 hours of sleep, the next day was crazy. I mean, with 3 kids staying at home, you don’t just pick up and leave. You write letters to the school, and try to have some food in the fridge and list out their schedule and how to make bottles. And you make sure all the school uniforms are clean. But no matter how much you plan, it turns out Enoch has no socks just as the weather turns cold.
Once we got through all that, flying wasn’t much better, because they decided to leave us sit on the Tarmac for an hour, LIKE THEY DIDNT KNOW WE HAD A BABY TO MEET.
When we finally got to Utah (about 10:30 pm, Louisville time), we headed directly to the hospital. We walked into the nursery with our social worker. And there she was! Just laying in her little hospital crib, so tiny (6lbs, 12oz and 18in), waiting for us.
It was kind of surreal, because everyone was just talking all calm and normal and we were meeting our daughter.
We named her?Phoebe Cheyanne Glory Davis. And she is our girl.
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