We Have a Date!

WE HAVE A DATE!  PRAISE THE LORD!   After months of waiting, and many messages and promises of two weeks... I can finally say, in officially two weeks Baby C will come home!  I am still in shock.  To be honest there were moments in the last few months where I wondered if we would ever receive this phone call.  I think I am still walking around in a fog.

We received a phone call today that Edmonton approved the match!  I am so excited and overwhelmed at the same time that God is entrusting baby C to us.  I have wondered, are we truly the best family for him?  Today, with Edmonton saying yes, God confirmed as well, that yes, he wants us to raise Baby C as our own.  WOW! 

So, what does that mean, and why two more weeks?  Now that they said yes we have to have an info sharing session for legal purposes where we learn everything we don't know/or may not know about Baby C and his history.  The soonest all of the social workers involved can meet is... two weeks, Nov. 7.  We will meet with them in the morning, and then we have 48 hours to decide if we want to proceed.  If we still want to proceed (hmm, let me think about that), then Baby C will come home on Thursday, November 10th.  Once he is home, we will begin the official adoption paperwork that takes about a year.

And so... for two more weeks, we wait.  Well sort of.  Now begins the list making and nesting instinct.  What do I need to do to get ready?  What can we do to prepare? 

Thank you all for your prayers.  We will continue to update you as we can.  Over the next two weeks please pray that we will be able to continue to focus on today and enjoy each moment that we have.

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13