I was at work earlier when I received a telephone call from Carol at around 4:00PM. Carol is the main person at CSS who has been working with us. She actually emailed us first asking that we call her. We weren't at home at the time so I never saw the email until later. During this call, she first asked if I was sitting down. I said I was and that's when she broke the news and said we received a referral for the boys. I was completely floored. Suddenly there appeared a glimmer of hope after everything we've been through. To this day, I'm still not sure what I said after she broke the news. I remembered she said she would email me the referral information she received about the boys.
After getting off the phone, I took all of three seconds to leave work and race home to check my email. I called Jess on the way home and interrupted her at a meeting she was at in Stevens Point. She didn't care once I broke the news.
I pulled in the driveway and promised myself I would wait the three hours until after Jessie got home before opening the email. I made it all of four minutes before clicking the "Send & Receive". I was proud I made it that long.
I opened the email from Carol and amongst six other pictures and a bit of background information was this photo. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you Sergei and Roman! This photo was from November of 2006. They look like real hams! Just as quick as I looked at the photos, I called Jess and forwarded one of the photos to her where she was at. We were awed, ecstatic and in disbelief all at the same time.
Here's the most recent picture of the boys. Sergei is on the left and Roman the right. Later that night, we called our parents and broke the news to them. We really wanted to wait before telling anyone because nothing is ever certain until after the court date. We couldn't keep it to ourselves and made it for almost an hour after Jess got home before we called them!Alas, there's light at the end of this tunnel!
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