Be Still and Know that I am God...

Have you ever had such big news that you couldn't contain yourself and you actually had to make yourself not scream it to the world?! Well for us that has been our position for about 2 weeks. Of course we've mentioned our great news to our family but we had to ensure that they too wouldn't say anything until the time was right.

Well here is goes. A few weeks ago we were contacted by our attorney to let us know that we had finally been scheduled for a court date with Momma B! We've been waiting for a while on this and we were thrilled that everything had finally made the court docket. The great thing about court is that Momma B will sign her adoption intent and we will have the papers we need to visit Eian in the nursery, have access to Momma B's medical records,make medical decisions if needed and most importantly bring our son home! We were also able to plan and Momma B will have a 4D ultra sound that same day. The hubs and I are betting who will cry first! As always even after we've signed all these papers, state law still gives her 5 days to change her mind after he's born, but we're believing God has already worked that out.

Well later this same day, as if getting the great news about court wasn't enough, our attorney emailed me again to tell me 1) to sit down 2) that I would never believe this and 3) she had met with a 2nd birth mom who was having a little girl in July,as well, who had selected us only for her baby!!!!!! That's right our son is due July 2nd and we will now welcome our daughter home who is due July 31st! Hyperventilation was an understatement and in that moment I was yet again reassured of Gods unfailing love for our family. Can you imagine that?!

We are so proud to welcome our son Eian and daughter Gracyn home in a few months! Our attorney told us we would be the third couple she has worked with where this has happened and she said the others raised their little ones as twins. Well the hubs and I are going to follow and have dubbed our babies the non fraternal- fraternal twins! We figure that with their due dates they would only be a month a part at the most or a few days or weeks. I have laughed because I said I wouldn't know what to do if God worked it out so perfectly that they actually came on the same day??!!

Well as before we got all this news on a Tuesday or Wednesday and were headed back on the road on that Friday to meet with our new mom, Momma J. It was wonderful because not only did we have lunch with Momma J but also her mother which was a big step for us. Her family is completely on board with her decision and, trust me, it makes a big difference. ** side note- please stop and say a sweet prayer for Momma B who still hasn't told her parents about the adoption- she says it's coming soon but lift her up ** Well after our lunch we played the waiting game to hear back on whether or not Momma J had finalized on us. My heart was so set that she would pick us that I walked in faith and moved forward. We went ahead and set up the nursery to accommodate two, contacted day care to let them know we would have two babies in the fall, and as you can see we named the baby- some before we met Momma J for the first time that Friday and all before we heard anything back. That's the confidence I have in my God! Well yesterday I got a call directly from Momma J letting me know that she had chosen us and she told me about her last and next doctors appointments- she even told me that her doctors were on board and would schedule to induce so that we could make sure we didn't miss anything!

You know, I told the hubs over dinner one night that after getting the good news from our attorney the only thing that played over and over in my head was the day I sat in the fertility doctors office and listened to him tell me that the only way we would likely have a family was by IVF. I now find myself laughing and simply whispering "but God...".

A few months ago when the enemy tried to place so much doubt in my mind my devotional one morning started with Psalms 46:10 " be still and know that I'm God"... From that day until today it's what keeps us moving forward, walking in faith, all along our Anderson Adventure

Pillow's I made to match the bedding

We had to move Eian's crib to the other side of the room

Gracyn's crib all set up

Corner view of the room

We tried to keep the color pattern the same in the room, cute polka dot ladybugs