Progress in our journey is slowly but surely moving along. I have a feeling things are going to pick up really fast, though.
We had our home inspection on October 6th and everything went smoothly. The lady just came in and asked me a bunch of questions that I've been asked before (What do you eat? How do you anticipate surrogacy will impact your daily life? What if you have to go on bed rest? Etc., etc.) then she walked through the house to make sure I'm not living in a crack house or operating a slave labor business in my basement before she went on her way. Quick and simple. I was stressing out thinking that I needed to clean my house top to bottom before she came but who am I kidding? My house is never spotless and there is nothing wrong with that- so I decided against hooking myself up to a Redbull IV and scrubbing baseboards for 24 hours before her arrival. I didn't even pick up all the toys off the ground and breakfast was still sitting on the table. :)
We received the first draft of our contract last Friday, the 10th. We were so excited to look at all the details. It makes this process seem much more real. We only have one minor thing we want to adjust with the lawyer this week so hopefully we will have it all finalized so we can all sign the contract in person next week when the guys come into town.
OMG they are going to be here next week! Actually they will be in town in 5 days! AHH! We are supposed to spend the day with them on Sunday and then again next Thursday. I'm so nervous/anxious I might pee myself. All of us agreed that we wanted to wait until we meet in person to sign the final contract. Hopefully we can all do that next week! It will be so surreal to hug these guys and get to know them on a more personal level. I already feel a connection with them so I can only imagine what it will be like when we meet in the flesh.
After we finalize and sign contracts, we will get hooked up with Oregon Reproductive Medicine (ORM) for a physical evaluation and learn the next steps in the process. Hopefully everything goes smoothly with ORM because I know we are all anxious to get things moving!
Slowly but surely we are making progress to giving these two men a beautiful family. :)
OH YEA! I almost forgot, I started my first postpartum period yesterday (almost 14 months pp). Yay! I didn't think I'd ever be so excited to get a period. This means that my body is ready to move forward with a pregnancy and we can sync my body with medication.
