More Movement

Holy shit! I got a phone call from Paula Murrin at the Nova Scotia Community Services Adoption Disclosure branch two days ago. I called back, left a message and finally got another call this morning. It was good news! Paula has been in contact with my birth mother and she is very positive about exchanging information with the hope of that leading to a reunion of some kind. I got pretty misty hearing what Paula had to say about the phone call especially that I have two younger (I presume) half-brothers who also know I exist. Also interesting is that I was not a ‘secret’ as my birth mother’s ex-husband also knew of me. I’m not sure if he is my birth father or not, but I assume not. My birth mother told Paula that she had worried a lot about where I was and how things were for me (Pretty damned good actaully!) and that she had waited for more than 35 years ‘for this day’.

The next step is to await a letter and picture from my birth mother along with a consent form for direct contact and the exchange of identifying information from NS Community Services. I’m so excited the waiting is going to kill me. However, the length of the process is good as it is easing everyone involved toward a resloution slowly rather than at blazing speed, which is my tendancy. I’ve waited almost 36 years, what’s another few weeks?

Already I’m feeling relieved a) that contact is coming b) that the experience is so far positive and c) I have some concrete information namely the fact that there’s more family to meet! I think I’m a little in shock that things are actually happening too. I honestly didn’t expect to hear anything this soon. I am so glad its been good news to this point. I guess the glass really is half full.

Being the creative and dark individual that I am I had every crazy scenario possible about my genetic relatives worked out in my head over the years. I think being adopted has helped me to become the imaginative nut bag I am. I’ve always had to wonder about who I look like, walk like and talk like etc. My birth family is has been merely guesswork in my noodle until this point. Now that they are becoming a firm reality I can put that wonderful speculative tool I’ve developed over the years to work doing something else. Watch out world. Here I come!