WORD!

Connie was kind enough to put the story down and send it to my parents so they could include it in our "adoption book" my mother is creating.

This is the story of how we heard about our son, waiting for us in Russia……..

It is 3:58pm on Thursday, June 4, 2009

Kevin was at work and I was at home washing clothes and getting ready for a busy weekend. Robin Longoria, our contact at the Gladney Adoption Agency, called the house and asked me what I was doing and she just laughed. I said, “Oh my gosh Robin, are you calling for THE CALL?”. She laughed and said, “ YES, Connie, take a minute to catch your breath”. Then she asked if Kevin was at home because she needed to talk to both of us.

I told her no, he was not home but I would call him on his cell, since he has it with him all the time. Kevin and I had worked out a signal so Kevin would know what to do when I called with the signal. I put the house phone down and got my cell phone and ran through the plan with the cell…………no return call from Kevin. I ended up sending the signal MANY times with NO RESPONSE.

I finally got on my computer and just started emailing Kevin so that he would get frustrated with his phone going off and my email would be all he saw on his computer. I just kept typing in the subject line ADOPTION CALL ME. I still have Robin on the house phone and FINALLY after literally 5 minutes of doing this, Kevin calls, but not on my cell phone but the HOUSE phone! I see that he is calling so I pick up my cell phone and call him. I tell him that I have Robin on hold on the house phone and that she needs his phone number of where he is at this very moment so that she can conference him in on the phone call with me. Kevin asks, why and then it hits him and he says, with a shaky voice, “Is this THE CALL?” I laughed and said “YES it is, are you ready?” He responds, with a shaky “Okay”.

He can’t remember his phone number at the office and so I ask him if he is in his office or some where else since I had called him on his cell phone I wasn’t sure. He finally says, yes that he is and continues to struggle to remember his office number. He finally gets it out and I tell him to not leave the spot he is at right now because Robin will call him in a few minutes. I tell Robin the phone number and she calls and tells us about our son, whose name, given by his birth mother is Aleksandr L.

Kevin had stepped away from his desk, without his cell phone, and gone down the hall to speak with the Dean of the Business School, Terry Maness. The bad thing is that he didn’t come back to his desk because of everything I was doing, but because his phone was ringing at his desk and he was coming to answer it. Thank God that he sent an angel to get Kevin back to his desk.

We have been told at this point that we will be making our first trip to Russia June 23-27, 2009 to meet our son, Aleksandr. We will probably wait 2-3 months before we go back for our second trip and actually get to bring him home.