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We received an answer/sign from God that we had been waiting on for since we met the sibling group (boy/girl) that we were presented with in December. We had been praying since we were presented the children for God to show us some sort of clear sign to let us know whether we should move forward with these children or not.

This afternoon around 4:20pm my SW called me to let me know that her supervisor called her the previous night to let her know that a couple that had met the sibling group prior to us were seriously interested in adopting the children now. Originally, in short, the couple had spent time with the children prior to us and decided that they were not sure if their busy life styles could handle two children at one time due to their involvement with different things and their church etc. The couple was childless as we are. I am glad that their hearts changed and that God spoke to them after spending some time apart from the children.

Our SW wanted to know if we were interested in adopting the children, because if not, the other family who had initially met the children, but decided not to move forward with adopting them decided that they definitely wanted to move forward with adopting them now. I believe that one of the parents had seen the children at the offices on another visit and missed seeing them. However, they came to their decision is fine. We feel that this was a sign for us that we should allow this family to move forward with adopting them.

We will be having our scheduled play date since we already have an upcoming playdate scheduled with their driver. We felt as though we should have the last play date since we promised the children that we would see them again. Their driver was a little disappointed that we were not continuing on with the visits to get to know the children even more because I feel as though he felt that things were going great with us and he was hoping for us to be their adoptive family. I told him that they were not "moving" us out of the way. We had a choice and we were not at the point of giving a definite answer, so our best choice would be to let the family who truly is ready to adopt them since they spent a significant amount of time with them prior to our visits.


When our SW called us and told us. I felt it was a definite sign from God that this was our opportunity to let the children be placed with a family. Regardless of the fact that the family originally said that the children were not a fit for their lifestyle, however, they had a change of heart and maybe they possibly needed that time to sort out their own situation and pray on whether or not they should adopt the two children. No matter what the reason was, they recently had a change of heart and they are aware that another family (us) were having visits with the children and possibly interested in adopting them.
However, we just recently met the children and we were no where near making a definite decision. Our decision was a little bitter sweet, however, I know that this was a clear sign.

So, with saying all of this, we know that this was a clear sign from God stating that these beautiful children will have a loving family to be their forever home. I advised our SW to let her supervisor know that she can let the other family know that they can proceed. We are not at a place with them right now where we could definitely say yes we are and I would not want their future delayed because of us. We are very comfortable with the decision that we made today. I must say that in a short period of time and with the initial visit and one play date, I was growing attached to the youngest child and we were looking forward to at least one more visit.
I know that both of these children are going to a loving forever home. In a sense, this took a weight off of my heart because I had a heavy heart regarding the children if I did not feel a total connection to both and if we decided not move forward. I desired for the children to have a loving, forever home. I am glad that we were in prayer for them from the minute that we met them. It took a few weeks, however, we know this was a clear answer.

During this same conversation, my SW advised me that they have some more babies and little situations becoming available. The supervisor also told my SW to let us know that we should not feel bad or feel like they would look at us any differently if we did not want to move forward with the sibling group, becuase they understand. She also advised her that they have more children coming available that are more along the lings of our age preferences.

So, just when I was doubting and trying to figure out how and when God was going to show us what he wanted us to do, he showed up and let us know that he answered the prayer that we had regarding the children since we met them. He has been in the middle all of the time.

This has been an interesting journey, however, we are definitely remaining in prayer and things are working out as they should.
I hope to have more exciting news coming real soon with some situations that we will find out about.


It has been a crazy busy week since the weekend and I have not had an opportunity to update the blog, put the pictures from the holiday on Monday and respond to emails and posts. I will update over the weekend. Thanks for being patient with me.