Shocking To Say The Least.....

So, while I was in the middle of posting the pictures I got a phone call from a phone number I didn't recognize.  Since I'm being hunted by several different bill collectors, I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know.  It was a lawyer.  The picture mail on Monday apparently served it's purpose.

I got a call from a friendly legal aid by the name of Kelly.  She told me that Jordan (which is actually his name)  had come into their office today and showed them the picture mail and asked legally what he should do.  They told him that they would call me and get more information and basically feel out the situation.

I gave Kelly a brief background on Jordan, me, the whole pregnancy timing mistake, all that.  She said that he was pretty much freaking out about the whole thing.  He wanted to know all this information about the kid and what he should do.  I told her all I wanted to do was let him know he had a kid and if he was interested, he was more than welcome to be a part of his life.  We chatted some more and she asked if it was ok that he called me.  Well, sure it is, that's what I wanted in the first place.  She said she'd get in touch with him to get a paternity test done and we'd move this along.   Ok, bye-bye...

Not 15 minutes later, my phone rang again.  It was him.  Talk about awkward conversation.  Once we got past a few of the key questions, such as, why are you just now telling me this, we were ok.  He apologized for having a lawyer call me and admitted that the lawyer is his dad's best friend and he really just wanted some advice on the situation.  I told him there was no problem with all that.  I told him it was ok if he didn't want anything to do with Ev.  He told me I should know that he came from a better upbringing than that and that if he had a kid he sure as hell wanted to spend time with him.  That made me happy.  He said that he hoped that pending a paternity test we could work everything out for the best interests of Ev.  I couldn't agree more...

Friday morning, we head down to the child support agency for the paternity test, which takes 8 weeks to get results....  I'm shocked at the whole situation right now, I expected a totally different scenario to play out.  It's surprising to learn that what you think is going to happen with something isn't how it's going to go AT ALL....