1 week to go?

 

 

Well, the delivery date changed on us a fourth time, yes fourth!  The changes were happening because our birthmother is seeing two different doctors, one regular and one high risk, and they kept saying different things.  So, as the countdown got down to 8 days to go, it got bumped down to 6 days to go.  Our new official date is May 18th and we are pumped!  We will meet baby and birthmom the day after delivery.  The birthmom will sign her adoption consent forms as soon as 48 hours after birth and as late as when she is released from the hospital.  So, in less than one week we will have met our baby girl and in 8 days, she will be in our care (although possibly staying in the hospital due to withdrawals).  After consent is signed, our agency will file the interstate paperwork required for us to bring baby girl back home.  We have been told this could take up to 10-14 business days.

Please pray for us as we go that we would be able to love our birthmother well.  Please pray for strength for us to handle whatever medical condition the baby is in.. though all reports so far indicate healthy, birthmom has used methadone most of her pregnancy.  Please pray for us to trust God no matter what.  It is easy to be nervous that any interaction with the birthmother may cause her to change her mind.  But in reality, anything at all could cause that and we just have to trust God for strength and the ability to do what He has called our family to do.

We are very thankful that we will have enough funds to make our next payment to the adoption agency, which is requested at child placement.  We then will have one final big chunk due before our court date which is around 90 days from placement.

 

On a completely different topic, A & W finished up homeschooling through Veritas Classical School this week.  This means we have a 6th & 4th grader.  Whoa.  In the fall, they are headed back to public school and they are very excited about that.  Our last day of school easy traditions are putting up a banner like this and letting the kids run through it like football players and letting them watch movies on the sofa as late as the want.  They barely made it to 10pm.  😉

Here are my Mother’s Day photos with my amazing kids.  They really are amazing and I’m so blessed by them!

And here is O “helping” Daddy mow.  He is obsessed with helping and would stay out there the entire time, if let him.  Chad is so gracious to let him help a little bit, but O is so sad when we tell him his time helping is over.  🙂