Best Christmas Gift Ever!
On the day of my last post, December 22, Steve and I were docked in Indian Harbor Beach and I wasn't feeling particularly festive. Jake wasn't doing well and we were going to have a relatively low-key Christmas. A few hours later, our lives changed in the best possible way! Steve and I were relaxing after dinner. I was probably playing a game on my phone and he was talking to his brother, David, on his. My phone rang and it was Jessie and Will. I stepped out into our cockpit so I wouldn't disturb Steve's conversation and Jessie told me that they had just received a call from the adoption agency they'd been working with, and that they had been selected by a birth mother to be adoptive parents of a baby boy who had been born in Florida the day before. And he could be picked up on Tuesday!! I started jumping around, repeating "Oh my God!" and holding back sobs. For a moment, I thought: 'Wait! What if they're just kidding me and I'm behaving like...