The Meeting & The Money

Today's meeting went really well. I am not going to get into the details of everything we discussed, but we did talk about several things. We all got to know each other a little better. Thanks so much for all your prayers. We felt them. I was not sure how this would go, having never done this before. But it was not awkward at all. In fact, it felt very comfortable. I think that meeting us has helped her to feel much better about her decision. She seems to really like us. She has three other children and two of them are old enough to know what is going on. She is just not a place in her life where she feels she can raise a 4th one and knows that we can give her a much better life than she can. You can tell that she loves her baby very much and wants to give her the best life she can, even though it will cause her pain to do so. The two older children are having a very hard time with this, so please keep them in your prayers. They are 9 and 14. I made them a scrapbook of our family and wrote them a letter. I hope that knowing more about us and having pictures of the family that their sister is going to live with will help them be able to accept their mom's decision. We also set up an email address that they can contact us at, whenever they want to. If they would like to be a part of their sister's life (and it's not detrimental to either them or Hannah), then we would like to them to be able to have a relationship. The mom kept saying that she feels like she's making the right choice and the baby is going to be happy with us. Still, you could definitely feel that she is in pain, so I am not totally confident that she won't change her mind. We are just trying to gaurd our hearts and let the Lord do what He has in mind to do.

The social worker gave us some pictures of the baby and she is beautiful. Due to what happened last time, we have decided not to post any pictures until she is placed with us. So you will have to wait until then to see her. We, however, did not have to wait. We were able to meet her today! After our meeting with the mother, we went to lunch and then we came back to the office. The social worker picked up the baby (who is in interim care right now)and brought her to the office and we got to spend about 35 minutes with her. We were able to hold her and love on her and feed her. She is a teeny tiny little thing. I have never seen a 5 lb 6 oz baby before. She is so lightweight. It was hard to leave, but we needed to not stay with her for too long. I told her that hopefully I will be back to get her next Friday and gave her a kiss and then we left.

Now, you know about the money situation with the loan falling through and needing ten grand. Well, I am happy to report that need has been met!! JEHOVAH JIREH HAS PROVIDED EVERYTHING WE NEEDED! Someone we know offered to lend us the money we needed at no interest and they were ready to have the money sent out today. So we will have that money by the time the revocation period is over. So unless our birthmom changes her mind, we will be able to bring the baby home one week from today.

Please continue to pray for the birthmom, her children, Hannah, and for us. This next week is very important and only the Lord knows how it will end. I know it will be a very long week for me personally. Pray that I can keep my eyes on the Lord, no matter what happens.

Thanks everyone, for your prayers, love and support. We love you!