IT'S OFFICIAL!!!

So, here she is.  Little Bethany Joy.  As with any adoption, things can always change, but here we are and this time we think it will actually happen.  Here's the story. . .

Three weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I got up with John to see him off.  He was headed to the airport at 5am- he would spend the day in South Florida, and then head to Haiti the next day.  (without easy phone access)  He left early that morning, and early that afternoon I got a call from our dear friend and adoption consultant Tracie.  She said, "When exactly are you coming home from your trip this summer?"  Well, I said, "right now it looks like early July, but it's pretty flexible.  Why?"  

She said, "Can you come home early and be here for a baby due July 7?"   What????????

I QUICKLY said I had to call John- before he got to Haiti!  There were so many questions, so many thoughts all at the same time, I didn't know what to do with myself.  No word on the sex of the baby- only that the birth mother was from the Pacific island area and that this would probably be the first adoption to come through Hannah's Dream.  She was in KC on a student visa and was about 22 weeks along.  Well, I called John, we talked it through, and felt immediately that this was the right situation.  I called Tracie back, and said, "Let's go."

So, three weeks later, after John got back home, we went and signed all the papers.  We all decided that if the situation before was 95% risk (risk that the birth mother would change her mind) then this situation is like 1% risk.  Everything about this situation is different than before- the largest factor being that she is directly connected to the agency and the social worker.  They have a relationship- a friendship where the agency is now the support system for the birth mother.  It is such a cool situation.  I will tell more of the details later, but either way be praying for little Harrigan- growing and forming somewhere in the Kansas City area.  That the Lord would speak life over her heart- that she would know she was formed and made with a purpose, and that her forever family has been praying for and seeking after her for months!

We are praying for you and your birth mama in these next months- over and over, every day.  The Lord is mighty to save.