8 - the number of hours it takes (with pit stops) to drive to Greenville Mississippi from our home
3 - the number of days we were there while O was working
1 - the number of O's wives who were going stir crazy in the hotel room
45 - the cost of getting a rental car on the last day to alleviate said stir craziness
2 - really neat places to buy Christmas decorations
1 - happier wife
30 - approximate number of e-mails received whilst in Mississippi
1 - number of e-mails that made my heart pound
2 - the number of children we were contacted on Thursday about adopting
1 - much, MUCH happier, if stunned, wife
J, the girl who taught our foster/adopt classes wrote asking if we would be interested in adopting a brother/sister pair they are trying to place pretty quickly. I was dialing her number before I even reached the end of the e-mail. We spoke for about 45 minutes and she had all their paperwork in front of her, so she was able to tell me quite a bit as I frantically tried to get some of it down on paper.
The very basics are this: The kids are legally available for adoption.
They were briefly on the state website and received up to 20 inquiries per day, most being out of state. Their worker wanted to give it one last shot to keep them in-state and had been calling J over and over to see if she could think of anyone locally who would be interested.
Ironically, we made an inquiry about them way back when, but of course it didn't go anywhere because of our incomplete homestudy. J didn't think the status of our homestudy would be a problem. She said when our interest in these two reached the state worker, either she'd be on the phone telling our county to "Finish it NOW" or J said she's drive over to our county, copy every piece of our paperwork, and do whatever it took to finish the homestudy herself.
The kids come with some challenges, but so far none of them are deal breakers for O and I. Of course, that was just a first conversation and we have lots of questions. In fact, O has been so slammed with work and was so exhausted on our drive home last night that we haven't had to opportunity to really talk about it in depth yet. That's on the agenda for this weekend.
So there you go.
1 - tired husband
1 - tired wife
2 - excited people
