God's Answer in regards to Angel Adoption

Today has been an emotional day for me.  It reminded me of when we were struggling with infertility and I would think I would finally be pregnant, test, and then see the negative results.  After you keep getting negative results you tend to not want to test because you just know that it won't ever be positive.  I knew that today we would get the results from our "test" with Angel Adoption and in my quiet time today, the first line that I read was, "Thank Me for your problems".  Great!  I might as well start preparing myself for another negative result.

I avoided email as much as I could today because I knew either way there was going to be an answer in there at some point   I wanted to know, but I didn't want to see the negative.  By 3:00 p.m., I had to check - - nothing.  By 5:00 p.m. - - nothing.  It was after 5:30 p.m., and I needed to go to the store.  I thought, maybe I should check one more time.  If nothing was there, maybe I'd need to wait until Monday??

I checked, and the answer was there and had been sent at 5:10 p.m.  Here is what it said --

Dear Skeeter and Joy,

I would like to thank you for your interest in Angel Adoption. It was a pleasure talking to you and getting the opportunity to tell you about Angel Adoption’s program.

I would like to formally extend an invitation to you to join Angel Adoption in the month of May; I feel that you would be an asset to our program.

Everyone in the neighborhood could probably hear me shouting as I was so excited to finally see a POSITIVE!!  I finally feel like we are in the stages of our paper pregnancy!  

What does this mean for us now?  Well, basically, we are starting over.  We will begin working on sending in pictures, etc, so that Adoption Angel can build a profile for us to be shown to birth parents.  They will build an online copy as well as a paper copy.  They will work and do things FOR us instead of me always having to do everything - - which will be a huge relief.  It will be a relief to work with someone who responds to my emails and my calls, rather than me always having to keep trying due to lack of response.  There are so many other things that will bring great relief as well!  Another nice thing is that most of the birth parents they work with are not heavily influenced with drugs and alcohol.  

We are so excited and can't wait to see who God will bring along for our family!!  We had a family from our home school group come over yesterday and they had an almost 6 month old baby.  It was so cute to watch Adia play with her and soothe her and be ever so gentle.  After they left, Adia asked me when we were going to get our baby.  I know the "excitement" stage won't last forever once the baby does come, but it does this mommy's heart good to watch these developments.

Our next big prayer request is once again in regards to our home study. :(  We will need our current social worker to get our home study to Angel Adoption.  It should take 1-2 weeks or so before our profile goes active, so hopefully this will give them enough time to get the home study to where it needs to go.   Pray that this will be a smooth process and that I won't have to keep asking to get this done. 

Thank you for continuing to pray!