The Call 8:48pm Oct 26th!

Joe and I were making "take out" Chinese at home. We were almost done but decided it needed a little something else so I ran out to the store. I forgot my phone and after dinner I saw that I had 5 missed calls. 5:48 our friend,5:59 my boss, 6:09 a number I didn't recognise, 6:27 Joe called while I was out, and 6:54 the same number from 6:09. The number that I didn't recognise started with a 2, and I thought it was my bosses cell phone. So I called my boss back and talk to her for a minute. After dinner I was resting on the couch and was watching Joy Ride 2, when I must have fallen asleep. At 8:32 I woke up to Joe holding my ringing phone out to me with the same number as the other two times. I said "work again" and pushed it under the pillow. I started to go back to my nap, but my curiosity got to me, and I called the number back. Imagine my surprise when I got the voicemail of our social worker! I was a little confused when her voicemail said she would be out of the office until Aug 17th. I called a second time to see if I heard it correctly. Here it is the end of October, why would her voicemail still have a message about August? I told Joe I bet her phone was stolen and someone is just calling the numbers in it. So I called it a 3rd time and left a message to call us back. Then for no reason I called it a 4th time! lol At that point I started freaking out and told Joe the only reason she would call us 3 times in one night is because she has a baby that is already born. My heart was pounding out of my chest and Joe blew it off saying "I bet we owe money". Lol Joe! I told him we did not, and that we are getting "the call". What seemed like hours, but was only 3 minutes later, she called us back. I said Hello, and she said Hi in the most casual way! She said she had a question for us, and I thought she must have lost more of our paperwork. Then she said it!!!!!! "How would you like to have a baby by Christmas". As I type this now, I am still in shock! I said something like "Are you kidding?" and told her to hold on while I put it on speaker for Joe, who was sitting next to me. That's when I hung up on her! I opened my phone to do a speaker call, and I think I called her back, but she might have called me. At that point she gave us all the details and said our baby is due December 10th! We talked for 9 min and 56 sec. We also set up our first meeting with our birth mom. It's this Thursday! In just a couple of days! At the time Joe and I were thinking it was Tuesday and that Thursday was just a day away, but later be both realized that it was only Monday, and Thursday now seems days and days away.
As soon as we hung up we hugged, kissed, and he dialed his mom at the same time as I dialed my parents. So I hung up my ringing number, to listen and join in on his call. After two hours of phone calls Joe and I got into bed and could not sleep. We tried watching a movie, reading, talking, not talking, but nothing worked. I think I finally fell asleep some where around 3am. Most week nights I am sleeping by 11:30 or 12. Last nights sleep was nothing great either. I tossed and turned all night. I thought all about our birth mom and all that we had learned about her. I thought about the baby and what it will be like to be a mommy in 7 weeks. I thought about the money that is going to be due. When my alarm finally went off, it was almost a relief. I didn't have to stay in bed and try to sleep any longer.
Today was another day full of joy, excitement, and phone conversations. I had to work today, but it doesn't really feel like I was at work. My head was all baby and I don't think I stopped thinking about our adoption all day. At some points in the day I had to stop and wonder what it was that I was doing. At lunch I remember thinking that I might have skipped a step while making mac and cheese. Turned out I forgot the butter. I was in a daze when I got up too. On my way to work it hit me that I did not remember getting ready for work and I started to wonder if I had put a bra on! I had to feel to make sure I had! I really hope the next seven weeks are not like this! I think I will chill out a little after we meet our birth mom on Thursday.
We don't know what we are having yet, but the birth mom is going to tell us on Thursday! We are flying pretty high right now, and I will have more to post on Thursday! *it might not get posted until Friday*