There is a BABY in our house

Tuesday is a big blur but I will try my best to give you the details. Around 11am I got a call at my office from our adoptions worker and I thought the call was for an email I sent in refernce to an 11 year old. She said we have a two day old and wanted to know if you would like to be the placement. I said 'A baby?!?!' And she calmly reminded me to calm down and think it over.  I told her I would call her back in 30 minutes with an answer. I was flustered and my heart was doing flip flops.

I called Rob and told him. He was in shock too. I gave him ten minutes to think it over...Yep,10 minutes. I talked a few things over with my boss too so we could have a plan if we said yes.

Ten minutes quickly rolled by and I called Rob back. We talked and decided to go for it. We were not prepared for a baby but let's do it!

To back up a moment, on Monday I was very emotional and cried out to God to give us what we need and for me to not go after what I think He wants for us. To me this little bundle is God's answer to my prayer.

Back to Tuesday.  We said yes so I called our worker who told me the baby was a boy (I forgot to ask the first time we talked). She told me to expect a phone call that afternoon so we could go pick him up from the hospital - never in my dreams did I think we would have this experience!

At this point I called my mom and at first she didn't believe me but I assured her I was telling the truth. Once she knew I was serious she could not contain her joy. She went right to work on trying to get stuff for us because we were not prepared - our 9 months was 3 hours!

At 2 pm we went to the hospital.  We were given his stats and had a short info session on how to not freak out--the doctor could tell we were nervous. Finally, I got my hands on him and immediately fell on love. He is our boy! We put him in the car and headed home. We never thought we would have the moment to bring our child home from the hospital.  That moment was amazing.

Life has completely changed but for the better. We love each sleepless night, poop/wet diaper, snuggles and more.

We cannot wait for our boy to meet everyone.

Thank you for your prayers, keep them coming! 💙

One Year Has Passed...

To be honest, I was not really sure about what I wanted to share on the blog today but figured that friends and family might want to know what we have been up to in the adoption world. It has been one year since we started this journey to expanding our family. Man, it has flown by!!! It has been a roller coaster for sure but I feel Robert and I have grown so much as a couple and individuals. I could not imagine going through this with any other person but my husband. He lifts me up, dries my tears, and keeps me giggling. He is going to be an awesome daddy!!

Over the past few weeks we have been inquiring about children from all over the USA and we have received responses that our information was received and we will be contacted if chosen. Over the past ten days we have been contacted about three children we inquired about.....one is Arizona, one is Pennsylvania and one in SC--all boys!!! HA HA!!

We have been given basic info on the children and after discussions and research of "syndromes" and "diagnosis" we have decided that we are not the forever family for these three precious children. The hardest part is telling someone no but we have to do what is best for our family--we have learned our lesson.

In November we will be attending two events to meet children in SC and who knows, we might just make a connection with some children. We are keeping our options open and if we meet a child who is older than our age range but "clicks" with us we will not say no. Wish us luck!!!

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Foster Home License updating is still in limbo. We are technically "licensed" but we are trying to open up our age range and waiting for our license to be transferred from the regional office to the county office. We were told today by our worker that a new staff member has been assigned to help the office handle the licenses for our region so there might be a back log or slower response time until he/she is in place--at least she is checking on it!!

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Please pray with us about a nine year old little boy in SC. We have read his info and inquired but do not know if the worker is going to look at our info or not. The info we know feels like a match for us but we place this in Gods hands and pray that He will guide the worker to make the right decision--also pray that we will be at peace with whatever decision is made.

Thank you all for sticking with us through this process by being supportive and encouraging.