Excited.....!

Well it's 8pm and we have just finished web-camming with Norma and her son and for some reason we both feel compelled to update! Exactly one week from now we will be on an aeroplane somewhere over the atlantic on our way to New York City for the first step of the actual process of baby making! It seems unreal that we have now known Norma for 3 and a half months.....the time has flown by and it feels like we have known her all our lives. Our relationship seems so easy that we feel we are incredibly lucky to be in the position we are in now with Norma and couldn't have asked for a better match. The day after we arrive in NYC we go to a clinic to have our blood work repeated as per FDA regulation and then we have the weekend fairly free so we are going to drive to Washington for the weekend. I have never been but Brett has and he is going to show me around which will be cool. We then figure we will make our way back to Connecticut on Monday and await our cue that the egg retrieval will take place so we can be in the right place at the right time! Norma flies in to join us on the Wednesday and we are going to go to see a show on Broadway and have dinner and I will have finally got to meet this lady who I feel like I know already and who is being so generous. All this while our embryo's will be incubating in Connecticut awaiting transfer to Norma which will be day 3-5 we think. Strange to think that in as little as 3 weeks we could be pregnant and be fathers to be. The day we find out we are pregnant I guess will be the day our lives change forever.....for the better!
The past few months have been like a whirlwind....when we first embarked on this journey there were so many questions in my head...I am definately the sort of person who likes to know the 'plan' and how it will all come together but at the start of this I really couldn't fully piece it all together which was fairly daunting. However as time has gone on and things have occurred it is all coming together fairly smoothly which is a relief. I think a lot of it is having trust in the agency staff and the clinic staff who have done all of this before and we have had a great team guiding us and who will continue to guide us through the rest of the journey. I am still thinking ahead to the logistics of getting out to the US for the 20 week scan, and should we buy a stroller in the UK or the US, and when the baby is born how will we sort out the legal paperwork, and which formula will we use, and which brand of diaper will we use, and how can we best support Norma if she gets bad morning sickness or back-ache, and and and and and.............. There are still so many unanswered questions at the moment but I have confidence that it will all come together in the end and we will end this journey as contented parents and will start a new one with our family in the UK, and our new extended family in Colorado.....