Sunday, July 18, 2010

Birth mom considering us

We have an exciting adoption possibility. We have a birth mom looking at us. She's looking at another couple but leaning towards us. I feel a little like Little Orphan Annie or The Rescuers Penny when she said, "It was adoption day at the orphanage. The man and lady came and looked at me. But they choosed the little red haired girl. She
was prettier than me." Now that part of the movie tears me up. How heartbreaking that is for us but that would kill me as a child. Fortunately the red head is on my team :) Surely she'll choose us. We've been praying to have another baby within 6 months. The baby is due Sept 1. Our 6 months would end in Oct. Again this could be "the
one". We're a little nervous to go through this again and yet we learned so much the last time and didn't come out with a baby (from our almost birth mom Amanda-not Randi). Of course we'll try it again. I had just decided to be content with the blessings we had and not bemoan the children we don't have (just like when I decided to not stress about getting married-I found Ryan). Sometimes that's how Heavenly Father operates.

The baby is a boy (they think). The birth mom is white with dark hair and eyes. She's in the military and hopes for little to no openness in adoption. That's okay. We just figure that's because she doesn't know how great an open adoption can be. Just like friends that turn down the gospel without knowing much about it. I wasn't an advocate for open adoption to begin with either.

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