IM's birthday was in January. I emailed her through FB (even though we aren't friends on there anymore, I knew she would get it) and wished her a happy birthday. Two days later she told me thank you and that she hopes the kids and I are doing well. Not a mention of the Christmas presents, the babies, nada. I was pretty upset and wrote her back telling her that I thought it was pretty crappy to not even acknowledge the gifts.
Not 2 hours later I went to the mailbox and there was a large envelope from her!
Inside were pictures from Frog & Turtle's newborn photo shoot, a photo book that had pictures from when we met all the way through the birth and some of the twins' first few months, and a card. The front of the card simply said Thank You. Inside she wrote on every square inch (including the back cover) thanking me for the Christmas gifts and telling me all about the twins.
I bawled and bawled until my eyes were swollen. Hearing that Frog was getting ready to crawl, Turtle loves baby food unlike Frog.. it just really made me smile through the tears. I immediately had to eat crow and email her back and apologize for being so not nice in the email 2 hours before that. I emailed her back a thank you note a week or two later. And she replied that she would send me updates. Of course there is no guarantees with that, but surprisingly it made me feel better that she at least said that.
It's so weird that I didn't know how much an update would mean to me until I got one. I still compartmentalize the birth in one category and the surrogacy in another. But hearing about the twins actually felt good.
This past weekend I was running errands and got a text from her! She just said that she hoped that I was having a good day, but if not maybe the text would make me smile.. it was a video of the twins! Frog was absolutely laughing (so hard that he was probably pissing his diaper!) at Turtle when he was playing with a toy. Oh I can't stop watching it! Every time I do I just smile and tears roll down my cheeks!
It's like I've finally realized that I brought 2 real people into the world! It's so unreal to think that I've always wanted to be a surrogate, and I actually did it and there are TWO more people in a family now!
So finally glad to be able to give a happy post on here (so I'll not go into anything else). It sure does make me wonder where we will all go from here......
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