The Perfect Profile

When Kathy asked me to fax our profile to her I was excited and nervous at the same time. We faxed the profile to her and then just sat and waited wondering what was next. That night at work, a Tuesday night, my cell phone rang from a number I was not familiar with. It was Kathy saying that she had shown the birth mother our profile pictures and she had fallen in love with it. The birthmother wanted us to be the parents of her baby. Kathy then went onto the cost of thing, which at this point my heart sank. How on earth were we going to come up with that amount of money by Sept. 22, the day the baby was to be born. Kathy then said that the birthmother, Latoya, wanted to talk to us on the phone. We set up a time to have a conference call for 3:00 p.m. on wednesday afternoon. Wednesday morning we went to work on figuring out how we were going to come up with the money if everything went as it as we thought and we would be adopting this wonderful baby. We got paperwork faxed to us from Kendalls 401 K and started to fill out the loan papers. We faxed them back and we had been approved, the only thing was it would take a few weeks to receive, but that was ok beacuse the baby wasnt going to be born until Sept. 22.

Wednesday morning came and it seemed to drag on forever. I kept looking at my cells phone to make sure I hadnt missed a call, then checking the house phone to make sure it was charged. Just before 3 the phone rang. It was Kathy, she began by giving us a heads up to how things were going to go. She said that Latoya went to the doctor today and had some exciting news for us. I was so nervous I felt like the phone was going to fall on the ground cause I couldnt hold it still. Kendall got on the other line and Kathy began to join us in the conference call with her, Latoya, and us.

I pick up the phone and called A Act of Love Adoption agency out f Sandy Utah. The receptionist answered and I began to tell her my story, all about the fertility treatments, how we didn't care if it was a boy or girl or what the race of the child was, and how we had got there adoption information in the mail years ago, but for some reason I felt I needed to contact them again. I then mentioned we had our papers in through LDS Family Services, at that point she stopped me. She went through the checklist of everything we had already had done with LDS Family Services and she asked me if I could please hold for a minute, she needed to talk to the lady that ran A Act of Love Agency. A few short moments later the main woman in charge, Kathy Kokock, got on the phone. The first thing she said to me was, "Sheri, how serious are you and your husband about adopting?". I then told her the whole story which I had just told the receptionist and she then presented me with something that made my whole world stop for a moment, and my heart raced a hundred miles an hour. "Sheri, we have an African American birth mother here that has been here since she was 3 months along. We have showed her profile after profile and she has not picked a family for her baby boy. Would you be able to fax your profile to us ASAP?"