I want to share with you a little more about what's going on with the adoption so far. We fell in love with a little girl early in our journey. Too early to be exact as we didn't even have our homestudy yet. By the time we did have a homestudy- she had already been placed. I did cry, but then I got over it remembering that God had picked our family out before we ever thought of it.
Early in January we got the long awaited phone call that we had a complete homestudy! YAY! Well, sort of yay. We had been praying and searching the sites for the children that were adoptable and no one spoke to us. No one. I minused every factor to try and make a child fit into our family. Still nothing. Nada. But, we got a call. A 1 year old little girl needs a home. Yes, yes, submit our study. Weeks passed, 2 to be exact and we heard nothing except that we were among thousands of entries. The thoughts of having her vanished in the wind. We didn't even see a picture of her, but it wasn't God's plan. I was excited to wake one day and find a set of twins, a boy and girl, age 1 were available again. They were briefly in the beginning of our classes, but again, no study - no chance. We inquired. The little boy was in kidney failure and desperately needed a transplant. Again, I tried to minus all the factors we had previously agreed on about which child would fit our family... (age range, health status, the severity of anything that was not right with the child....yada yada) They didn't fit. Not really ever, but when you want more children you start to get cloudy and well, God is the control. No matter how many variables there are, God is still the control - still in control. Boy, oh boy did I have to get a grip and get focused. We started this journey to adopt a daughter. One little girl. We backed up, gripped grace and we're smack in the middle of becoming parents to 3 - three! Two girls and a boy. All the pieces fell into place. Everything about them is already a part of us. We inquired in mid January about them. We got the call for more information - our SW is awesome and she quickly responded. We've since had several contacts from their SW to ours to us and now are awaiting a conference call between us and foster mom to ask questions of her. Wow. They haven't gone to committee yet, but we do know that the other 2 families that were in the running with us hadn't responded to their questions... this is good for us. The children's SW feels we are a good match, so does her supervisor. This is really good news. Our SW is pretty certain they wouldn't be doing this if we weren't the chosen parents. Nevertheless, the wait is killing us. I'm not going to put a lot of info about them on here except to say they are healty, beautiful and I'd love to say it with certainty... OURS. Did I mention that they're in Oregon?
Well, the boys are schooling so I'm gonna go check papers. (we're homeschoolers if I didn't mention that) Our sons are 10 and 12 and in the 4th and 6th grade. So, lots to do and D works tonight so I'm gonna get my time in with him before he goes to sleep for the day.
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