{"id":197,"date":"2009-10-08T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-10-08T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:44:42","slug":"splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"SPLASH!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel as if we’ve taken the Nestea plunge<\/a>, into the pool, fully clothed.\u00a0 I realize that in our situation, we’re talking about a “pool of candidates” and not an actual pool, but I’ve been coming up with clever phrases to announce here, on the blog, that we are “in the pool” (i.e. that our profile is being shown to potential birthmothers) and now, much to my surprise, we’re in!\u00a0 We had been under the impression that our homestudy would have to be 100% complete before our profile would go public, so imagine our confusion when we got about 4 messages from the texas agency yesterday telling us that there was a birthmother who wanted to talk to us.\u00a0 (Our homestudy is still on their editing table.)\u00a0 Unfortunately, they’d called at about 5:26 and wanted to set up the call between us at 5:30.\u00a0 And neither J nor i was near a phone to get the message.\u00a0 And so we missed the opportunity.\u00a0 The way it works with this agency is that they call us to say that a birthmother wants to talk to us.\u00a0 They give us a phone number and a time to call (sounds very cloak and dagger, doesn’t it?).\u00a0 If we miss the window to call, then they have to set up another calling appointment.\u00a0 I was a little hyped up last night to say the least.\u00a0 Not only were we in, but someone already wants to talk to us!\u00a0 Woo hoo!\u00a0 Maybe our profile is working!<\/p>\n

The agency called me again this afternoon with a different phone number and time to call this same birthmother–this time with a full 45-minute warning!\u00a0 I found a quiet spot at work (ahem, a closet), and made the call.\u00a0 The first thing she asked was, “so, are ya’ll from Dallas?”\u00a0 Hmmm…. maybe our profile didn’t work as well as I’d hoped.\u00a0 We must still just look like another “rich” white couple that wants a baby.\u00a0 Oh well, we talked for a good 25 minutes about this and that.\u00a0 I think the agency usually has birthmothers choose 3 couples (from the profiles) to call and talk to and I know that she talked to at least one other couple before us.\u00a0 It may lead to nothing, but at least I’ve got a phone call under my belt and we are most definitely in the pool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel as if we’ve taken the Nestea plunge, into the pool, fully clothed.\u00a0 I realize that in our situation, we’re talking about a “pool of candidates” and not an actual pool, but I’ve been coming up with clever phrases to announce here, on the blog, that we are “in the pool” (i.e. that our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}