God is good!!

We have been chosen again! I got a call this afternoon that a birthmother chose us earlier today. The baby was born yesterday and the mom had not been working with an agency until she called today. This is referred to as a cold call. The baby is healthy and is 5lbs 6 oz.....three pounds and a few ounces lighter than all of my boys were. She is about an hour south of us and will be going into interim care until the waiting period is over. We will have to wait a little longer than ten days until she can be officially ours, because they have to look for the birthfather. They have to try to contact him and then he has 10 days by law to respond, so it will be 10 days from whenever they send out the notification to him. We may possibly be able to take the baby home after the mom's revocation period is over (end of next week). I'm not sure about that yet. The birthmother would like to meet us, so we will be going to meet her on Friday morning. Please keep that meeting in your prayers. Please keep the birthmother in your prayers. This is not easy for her. Pray for God's will to be done in this situation. Pray also for us. I am going to try very hard to keep my heart and mind guarded, in case this does not work out the way I'm hoping it will. Right now, I want to be excited, but I am afraid to be.

In my previous post, I told you how we had just lost our adoption loan last week. There was some confusion about that, I'm told. When I posted that we had all the money we needed, I was including a $10,000 special adoption loan that we were approved for. Now that they are not offering that loan anymore, we need $10,000 and we will need it very soon if this is the baby the Lord has for us. We have not owned our home very long, so we are not sure if we have enough equity yet to borrow against. We are looking into it. We found a place that offers a no-interest adoption loan and have begun the paperwork for apply for that. However, they take 4-6 weeks to approve you. I am not sure if we can get a rush on that or not. I am also not sure if maybe God allowed the other loan to fall through because He wants to provide in other ways. We just really need His wisdom and direction as to what He wants us to do. Pray that if this is the baby he has for us that He provides the money that we need in the next 10 days. If anyone reading this feels like supporting us financially, the information on how to do that is on the right side of my blog.

I will most definitely update you after our meeting on Friday morning.