WE ARE MATCHED!!!

Here it is friends! We have finally been matched! We are matched with a birth mother who has traveled from Texas to Kansas to deliver through an adoption agency called Adoption Connections. It is a small agency, run by a husband and wife couple and they are amazing. She is the social worker and he is the lawyer. They are incredibly affordable, compared to their competition and they take really good care of both babies/birth mothers and adoptive families. We got matched with a baby that is due in the coming weeks and though we don't have all the details yet, we are at a place where we feel at peace and confident that this is the right step.

It's amazing. We got calls all fall and at each one I was full of anxiety. Are we making the right decision? How do you make such a decision? What if we heard wrong? What if? What if? What if??? And yet, at this point in the game I have no anxiety. (Except of course the absurdity of the fact that we will have a newborn in the house sometime within the next 15-30 days!!) I have this sense deep within me that this in the one we have been praying for. That the Lord has taken care of her in a very real and tangible way. That he is taking care of us and preparing us for the things he has coming our way. It's completely surreal and yet vividly clear at the same time. Weird, I know.

People we have talked with who have experienced the same kind of situation have shared how things sometimes pass by in a blur. Details get lost, what was important is no longer, and what used to be worthless is suddenly vastly important. I know I sound like I am rambling, but in an effort to share my heart without giving away too much information that is not for the internet, I am suddenly without words.

We are going to have a baby! It's like I peed on a stick this past week and the doctor told me I was due in 2 weeks. Really??? Are you sure, Lord???? And yet. . . of course this is it. We've been planning and praying for about nine months. Interesting math, huh? Finalization in Kansas is 30-60 days, so for those of you who know our plans for 2010, everything is still on for go.

We are also in need of some funds. The fees, including everything, are $16,000. I know, a lot of money, but I like to say it costed $25,000 to have Benjamin and almost $50,000 for Samuel, so this one's a breeze!! No really, we have a bunch in the bank, some promised from a grant here locally, and remain about $2000 short. That's nothing!! If you are moved and have anything to pass along we would desperately appreciate it. We have a paypal account you can link to from the blog, and that would probably be the most efficient and quickest route for now. We could get a call any day that says she is in labor! Come to the hospital!! Let me know if you have any questions and be praying. We covet your prayers over this little one! Blessings friends.

goodbye and goodnight.