Saturday & Sunday, April 28-29th

The weekend was a little more relaxing, since we knew the attorney’s office was closed and we wouldn’t be getting any new info—good or bad. So, after sleeping in (yes, Mark slept great and we didn’t get up until 10am I think, he did eat at 6am of course) we decided we needed to leave the hotel room, so we went to the mall! LaDonna even decided to get a haircut and all the ladies at the JC Penney Salon went gaga over Mark. We rented a mall stroller and just cruised around a little bit—Mark of course slept like, well, a baby—a content one. :-) When you don’t know anyone and your life has just been turned upside down, little comforts seem bigger. We actually felt better when we got back to the hotel room—it was “home” for now and at least we felt secure there and had plenty to care for Mark. We didn’t feel adventuresome enough to go to church this first weekend (not to mention he’s only 5 days old). We spent most of the time praying, trying to catch cat naps, & watching the Discovery Channel (“Deadliest Catch”, “How it’s Made” and “Mythbusters” became instant favorites and took our minds off other things. I’m too cheap to pay for cable TV at home—but there’s some really cool stuff on Discovery!). It was our first weekend with Mark and we just tried to soak up as much time with him and as a family as possible. We knew Monday was just around the corner—the day Mark’s birth mother must sign the papers to legally give us custody of Mark.