On Friday (Nov 4), we got wonderful new about our precious baby boy. He has been staffed to adoptions which means that with more fingerprints (like the 90th time LOL), and some updates to our home study we should be able to be matched with a lawyer and finally go to court to adopt our baby and make his last name the same thing as ours!
Someone posted something so special to me on my facebook when I made this announcement. He said that our baby already had our last name - we were just waiting for the paperwork to catch up.
It gives me so much peace knowing we have made it this far in the process. Almost five months of waiting are finally working out for us to become a legal family of four. (We are totally a family of four now. And I hate it when people ask me after an adoption how it feels to be a mommy. I am a mommy now - we just need the legalities over to make all of our kids have our last name. Having a foster child is as much parenting as anything else. Ok, off my soap box.)
On the Austin front... Tomorrow is the day that he came home for good to live. This time two years ago, it was Daniel's and my last night just as a couple without a baby. And it was a LONG night of waiting, I will tell you that much. We were so excited to be bringing our very special, just turned 1 year old baby boy home.
He did so very well with the transition to our home. He blended into our family as if he had been here forever. God gave us a very special gift in Austin - in both our boys actually, but I was on the Austin topic :)
Tomorrow is Orphan Sunday at our church. I have said several times that I am thankful for a church that celebrates adoption. And it is so much more special that tomorrow is also the anniversary of the day Austin came home to live for good - his "Gotcha Day."
I met a new friend today who is trying to adopt. It is so neat how God brings people together who are at the same stages in life. We can always help each other, just by listening, or sharing advice from experiences, or even just listening to frustrations of the journey.
My boys are my life. I love them. And I am so very thankful for all of the good things God has done in our adoption journey. We aren't done yet. But we are a whole lot closer and a whole lot safer than we were a few months ago.
I look forward to what God has for us in our adoption future!
No comments:
Post a Comment