Are you for REAL? (Planning The Plan)

Okay, I am aware my last post was a little short (just like me. Hehe!) But hey, I was in shock. Like, SuperShock.


Sometimes this all doesn't seem real? Like, how can it be so simple?

1. Decide to search for Birth Mother
2. Email orphanage
3. Email Adoption Unit of Hong Kong
4. Apply for TV Show
5. BIRTH MOTHER IS FOUND!
6.Go to Hong Kong to meet Birth Mother
7. Live in peace. Happily (with) Ever After...


To be honest I expected that it would be hard to find her. If you consider how many people are in tiny Hong Kong (over 7 million people) compared to New Zealand (just over 4 million) But I guess when God is in your corner nothing is impossible.

I've had some time to digest this new info and I feel... okay? Since there is no manual (unless you count this blog as one? Haha!) I can't exactly tell you how I will feel tomorrow or next week, let alone an hour from now. So in the meantime I have been immersed in this TV show buzz: I have to get to Hong Kong.

I have been emailing the TV show team back and forth as there were a few hiccups in the photos of documents I had sent blah-blah, woof-woof. I also emailed them literally within the hour of me finding out about my birth mother. I didn't know if this would be a problem for them. But they seemed fine and asked me to email the Adoption Unit lady I have been emailing, to give them permission to take over the situation. I still haven't heard anything back from the Adoption Unit lady yet. Also neither has the TV show team. So I have just emailed again... (a little worried now)

Since everything is looking like it's falling into place at a rapid pace I felt the need to get some more info (cheeky I know!) So I had an in-depth, yet not-on-the-record, chat with one of the producers about the ins and outs. As obviously with a not-yet-one year old to think about I need a little more info than, "Surprise! You're going to Hong Kong today!" She graciously obliged, sort of...

So the 411 on the D-Low (yeah, I'm cool) is that "hypothetically" if I were to be picked for the show I will have to pay for my family to come. So stink, but I guess doable (if God is for us...) But the good news is that they will tell us which flight number etc. to be able to book our extra tickets, so that's a plus?! Also, I naughtily asked what the "hypothetical" timeframe might be like, as I have to organise either hubband to take off work to look after Ever or to (hopefully) come, plus passports etc.

= SIX  (to seven) weeks!

What the?! Wow... okay. Sweet, I can do that. Yep, God is unreal! No, make that, God is super REAL! Adrenaline rush, anyone?

The MOTHER of All Emails...

... See what I did there?!


Yes, you are correct. You do not need glasses or laser eye surgery.

I received an email, TONIGHT in fact, that disclosed:

WE HAVE FOUND HER. 

YOUR BIRTH MOTHER.

She is going into their office to verify her identity at the end of next week.

Seriously, all I want to do is smoke a cigarette. (Sorry Ever!!!)

I can't talk. I don't want to talk. I don't know how to talk. I mean what do you say to that?

Hello. Goodbye.