Winning the lottery

Brian and I like to joke, dream, fantasize about what we'll do when we win the lottery.  We have lived in crazy mansions, added theater rooms to the house, gone on exotic vacations, etc.  In reality, we don't play the lottery, so we don't have a prayer of winning.  Yet, it never stops us from saying "When we win the lottery...".  We're really quite content.  We have enough money, enough food, enough shelter, wonderful friends, and a amazing, loving family.  What else is there?  We're not materialistic, so we don't need much to make us happy.  But, it's so much fun to fantasize about having more money than any person needs.  Quite often when people ask about the adoption process, we tell them the truth... the call could come tonight, or it could come next year.  I think that whenever we say "the call could come tonight" we feel like we're just playing around.  We're going through the motions, and that it "could" but it won't.  We were talking last night about how every time we say it, it feels like "yeah, it could, but it won't.  We know better", but what about when we say it, and it is THE night.  It's going to happen sometime, so there will be a time when "the call could come tonight or tomorrow" and it's the truth, what actually happens.  Will we always feel like we're just saying it, or will we start to feel like YES, it could and will happen tomorrow?  My guess?  We're going to be taken by storm, by surprise.  We'll never expect it to happen, much like winning the lottery.  The difference is that we WILL win the adoption thing.  We will get that call.  It just feels like the lottery... something fun to talk about that we'd really like to have happen, but sort of like a dream or a fantasy.  It's quite surreal!  I'm continuing to have those parenting dreams (well, I've had two now... but that's something!) so we'll see if that means something, or it's just what this experience is going to entail!  It's pretty fun to wake up and feel like I was just taking care of our baby!