How the Grinch Stole Referrals

My friend Lisa e-mailed me this story that was created by an adoptive parent in waiting. This is very cute and very fitting. Here you go...Enjoy!

Every person in the world liked referrals a lotBut the Grinch absolutely, absolutely did not.The Grinch hated referrals, the whole referral seasonNow, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reasonIt could be his head wasn't screwed on just rightIt could be perhaps , he was always uptightBut I think that the most likely reason of allMay have been that his heart was two sizes too smallWhatever the reason, his heart or his headHe hated these rumors that he daily was fed.Staring down from his home with a sour grinchy frownAt the nurseries being readied in every small townFor he knew every family from right here to right thereWas busy now buying cribs and a new high chair"And they're buying up diapers," he snarled with a sneer"This week are referrals, they're practically here."Then he growled with his grinch fingers nervously drumming"I MUST find some way to stop referrals from coming."For this week he knew, all these mommies and dadsWould wake bright and early for referrals they hadAnd then, Oh the NOISE, oh the noise,Noise, noise, noiseThat's the one thing he hated!The Noise Noise! Noise! Noise!Then these people young and old would sit down and cryAnd they'd cry and they'd cry, and I don't understand why.They'd cry over the hair, that stood in the airOver just a small picture they'd thousand times shareAnd THEN they'd do something he liked least of allThe mommies and daddies, the tall and the smallWould all share together the pictures receivedThe hope for this child, they always believedAnd the more the grinch thought of the joy this would bringThe more the grinch thought "I must stop this whole thing.""Why for years I've put up with it now I must stop referrals from coming!But How?" Then he got an idea! An awful idea!The Grinch got a wonderful awful idea!"I know what to do," the grinch laughed in his throatAnd he made a quick Fedex hat and a coat.And he chuckled and clucked, "What a great grinchy plan!""With this hat and this coat, I'll look just like the manAll I need is a truck and I'm ready to goTo the homes in Chicago and south IdahoThen the grinch started his truck and began his tripTo each waiting family he would quietly slipAll the families were waiting, for him to get thereThe waiting was something they could hardly bearWhen he came to the first house down on the streetA woman attacked him before he got out of his seat."Gimme my package!" the woman she criedAnd the grinch stood no chance no matter how he tried"There are no referrals," the grinchy man hissedBefore he was pummeled by a left and right fist."What do you mean?" the woman she screamed"Gimme my referral for this day I have dreamed.""But the grinch slipped away, a rather tight pinchIf Fedex men could stand it, then so could the grinch.But you know that old Grinch was so smart and so slickHe thought up a lie and thought it up quick"Why my sweet little lady" the fake Fedex man lied"They're having some problems on the CCAA side.""So you'll just have to wait another month or twoAnd when I get your referral, I'll bring it to you."And his fib fooled the lady, as tears filled her eyesAs he left he could hear her long sobbing cries.Then he did the same thing to the other people's homesLying about referrals, or writing silly poems"pooh-pooh to the people" he was grinchishly humming"They're now finding out no referrals are coming."Their mouths will hang open a minute or twoThen all the mommies and daddies will all cry "Boo-hoo!""That's a noise," grinned the grinch, "That I simply must hear,"So he paused and the grinch put a hand to his earAnd he did hear a sound from the people belowIt started in low and it started to growBut the sound wasn't sad, why the sound sounded merryIt shouldn't be so, but it was merry! Very!He stared at the people, the grinch popped his eyesThen he shook, what he saw, was a shocking surprise.He hadn't stopped referrals from coming, they came!Somehow or other they came just the same.And he puzzled three hours till his puzzler was soreThen the grinch thought of something he hadn't beforeMaybe babies, he thought, don't come from the Fedex cartMaybe babies they're born right in the heartAnd what happened then, well in some town they sayThat the grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.And the grinch brought the referrals back to each oneAnd now it is time that this journey's begun!