I'm sitting on the couch while the kids are asleep being totally overwhelmed with life knowing that my God is in control, of whatever happens - the way I want it to or not. But sometimes that truth is hard to swallow. I want what I want when I want it. Not appropriate I know, but the truth none-the-less.
We are tentatively - and I do mean very tentatively - scheduled to adopt our precious baby boy number two on Thursday. But we hadn't heard anything from the lawyer by yesterday. So I ended up calling her. Thankfully she did our first son's adoption, so she knows us. She had JUST gotten our paperwork and had two other people in front of us. So she said she wasn't sure if we would get done with the adoption next week or not. Of course, the adrenaline kicked in and my husband and I started trying to decide what to do. He called the lawyer back and asked her what we could do to help her out.
She said we could come to her town, about an hour away from us, and pick up the paperwork, bypassing the mail service, which cuts days out of the process. So we decided to do that. We were supposed to do that on Friday (tomorrow). However, today she called and said there was a problem with the paperwork that had to be corrected, which couldn't be done until tomorrow.
So we have a new plan, it is a tight one in the schedule of this adoption process. But we are traveling to the town on Monday with all three kids, having to be there by 8:30 - and it is an hour away. We are picking up the papers, having it notarized (thankfully the Lord allowed us to find a notary quickly there that is willing to go the extra mile for us), drive it back to the lawyer to be completed, drive it to the Pensacola court house and file it - making sure the correct judge is on the paperwork so that we are assured a spot on the docket. Yes, makes me tired just to type it.
But, I am seeing it all as a Christmas miracle - giving us a Christmas blessing - a precious baby boy number two to make us a forever family of four. That my friends, is truly an act of our Creator God! My precious babies, born to another birth mother, given to me under sometimes the most intense circumstances, everything working out literally down to the minute to grow our family by one more.
Today has been a day of up and down emotions. It started out a lot on the stressful side trying to figure out how to get these papers file with the court, and the kids were quite loud this morning as well, a lot of crying. But as the day progressed, things got better. We figured out our day Monday, still praying it all works out. And the kids did very well today.
In fact, it is the best day I have had in literally almost a month. And I am thankful. It gives me hope. It makes me see light at the end of what felt like a dark tunnel. My three children played together for the first time today. All giggling and enjoying each other with no crying or quarrels. These are the priceless moments in my journey - literally making up for a few of the moments where the tears come for me.
A few other amazing things happened today. Maybe, if they pan out, I can share them in the future. For now, though, please continue to pray for us in all things. Our lives are taking turns we never expected them to take. For now, we are concentrating on Monday then Thursday and then Christmas (Which reminds me that maybe I should go shopping for present for the kids :) I do have a couple, but...)
Adoption is one of the best things to enter my life. God has blessed us immensely. And I am thankful and early watching how things will turn our in the next few days, a play that only our God can orchestrate.
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