Back in December I received a phone call from a woman saying she had a grand baby who was going straight to CPS unless they found him a home. She asked if Jim and I would take him to adopt into our family. She's been in our home and knows us well. She felt confident we could give her grandson the life she desired for him. However, it wasn't up to her, but her daughter and she would get back to me with the decision from her daughter. Ten minutes later she called saying her daughter was bringing her son over later to meet with us.
I was excited... like OVER THE MOON EXCITED!!! I immediately called Jim and our adoption attorney saying someone wants to place their baby with us. It was a week before Christmas. Within a matter of an hour I went from thinking about my Christmas to-do list to a nursery, car seat, baby names, the excitement of a baby in our home, the joy from our children... and on and on. I know, it was naive of me, but I couldn't help it. I was just so excited. We had been contemplating adoption for some time but just didn't feel it was the right time and now someone had reached out to us... It was just too good to be true... and it was exactly that. Several hours later we received a text saying the mother changed her mind. I was really really sad.
I set a goal to start the certification process in January. I thought about it every day, and never did a thing about it. I was paralyzed. It was overwhelming to start the paperwork, to pay more fees, to think what we were getting into... So January came and went and my goal was a wash.
I started over in February and thought, "Do I foster-adopt or just regular adopt?" I wrote that question down and prayed about it.
Later that day my friend sent me a picture text of a little boy who needed a home asap but we couldn't take him since we weren't certified. I took that for my answer we needed to move forward with regular adoption for now. I'm not ruling out foster-adopt in the future, but it's not what we are focused on that at this time.
It was a lot of paperwork, money and three months later but as of today we are officially certified to adopt a baby and we are thrilled!
A huge thank you to Meredith Urry who was the answer to our prayers three separate times. I believe God often answers our prayers through other people and she was one of the big ones in our life.
Thank you for reading... More to come!
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