Oh the Joys of July!

Well there seems to be so much to catch up with so I apologize for the length of this post. As you know we have been in full swing with our home study. We will actually have our final interview and home visit this week. We are excited to welcome Mrs. K to our house and are confident everything will go smoothly. We also got the call from DHR and will have our home visit with them this week as well. It will be a busy week in our house! The steam mop and vacuum are going to be pooped before it’s all done.

What a weekend we’ve had! The hubs and I decided a few weeks ago that we wanted to head down for Mardi Gras this weekend, but after searching for a hotel and trying to make plans we realized that it didn’t look all that feasible. Well, after spending some time in email convo with one of the attorneys we had been working with we actually made plans to travel to Mobile this coming weekend to meet for the first time and get to know a little more about her and what her nonprofit does. We spoke on last Tuesday, I mailed off a profile book on Wednesday and we made arrangements and were set to travel this weekend, the 25th.

Well, things changed and they changed very quickly! On Thursday I got an enthusiastic email from the attorney inquiring about our profile book and if it had been mailed- I replied and indicated that it was on its way and should arrive on Friday. Well, as it would all work out; she had a birth mom come to her office and knew that we would be a perfect fit (even before meeting us)! After squealing for a while, I emailed her back and reminded her that I had attached our “Dear birth mom” letter and a picture to my original email. She sent that to the prospective mother who indicated she wanted to meet us…this weekend! We scrambled and were able to book the last room in a hotel not far from the meeting location. Excitement was an understatement.

Of course the weather was HORRIBLE this weekend, but soaked and all we went and met at the restaurant. It was really like a first date- you don’t know what to say, you hope you look ok, you hope you make a good impression- all the normal first date stuff times 10 is what we were feeling! Well the attorney got there shortly after we did which gave us time to meet and chat - we were so glad she was there. Well the mom comes, we’ll start calling her Momma B, and she is as wonderful as the attorney told us she would be. We chatted for nearly 4 hours and at the end of the night walked away with a sweet gift that still makes me smile!

We knew that she still had another family to meet and that her parents knew she was pregnant, but didn’t know she was looking to adoption, but that was a wild card that we had to accept. From that night, it would be a waiting game to see if she picked us. We’ll that call came Sunday evening with the attorney simply saying “She picked you! She said there was no need to see anyone else because in her heart she knew she couldn’t find anyone else better for her baby”.  Well world, this is our baby- a precious little BOY that is due July 2! We couldn’t be more thrilled!

We do ask for everyone to continue to lift us in prayer and specifically lift Momma B and her parents up before Christ. We don’t know yet how her parents will take the news or if they will support her decision of adoption or try to change her mind, but we do know we serve an awesome God who with confidence would not lead us to this place and leave us on our own.

We are beyond excitement and soon to be expanding all along our Anderson Adventure