The Happenings of Nothing Happening

It took our family until after Valentine's Day to get our New Year's letter out. I'll share it on here when I can. Our computer finally gave out, and that makes things a little weird right now.

I'm not sure how to describe our adoption process right now. It has been active but nothing is happening. We've been contacted about several birth mother situations locally, from Florida, and from Texas.

 An unprecedented six birth mothers all came at once to one agency in Texas. One of the situations involved an infant that was already a month old! As far as we know, our profile hasn't been shown to any of them, as maybe a few have changed their mind, one is already matched, and another couple of them are having some hiccups with contacting birth fathers. As of right now, we're just waiting to see how it all plays out. We'll be told when that door is shut, or if we're selected as potential adoptive parents.

 We also heard about a situation in Florida. It was a difficult one for us because after researching the medical needs of the unborn baby, we determined that we wouldn't be a good fit as a family for him. That was really hard to say no to! My how we agonized over it! And of course, I cried. A lot. It was really difficult to say no to a child that needed a family when that's the very thing that we're out to do. Maybe, that's not understandable to some who might be reading this, but we just didn't feel at peace allowing our profile to be shown. I know on April 9th, I'll be thinking of that baby boy, and I'll pray again for him, his birth mother, his birth father, and his adoptive parents. We were told of another in Florida that our program director thought that I would especially be a match for what this birth mother was looking for, but the fee for the adoption was way out of what we could or would pay. So that was another that wasn't for us.

Two more situations have been presented to us. Both are in our home state, and both a ones that we said yes to. The first, I don't imagine much of a shot at. The birth mother is looking at the first "round" of profiles this week, and if she doesn't find a family that she connects with, then we will be in the second "round". The second one we just heard about earlier this week. As of right now I don't know how many couples have said yes to this profile. So, I can't really say much about it. We're actually pretty surprised at how much is going on.

There's a lot of blessed opportunities to pray for these women as they make difficult decisions, and to pray that each child is safe and is brought into the right family. There's a huge peace knowing that the Lord is in control. Our child will come home to us, in His timing, in His way. All these situations that we hear about are opportunities to pray for the people involved knowing that if one is ours, then he or she will be ours. All the others just belong to someone else! The joy is in knowing that these babies belong to someone!

So we continue to wait. We continue to save, and we'll be brainstorming fundraising ideas. I'm still selling necklaces and brooches. In fact, to help generate more publicity, I'm doing a giveaway right now. You can check it out here. Visit A Nest by Design here if you're curious. My heart is to grow this into something that I can help other adopting families raise funds. That's a bit in the future though.