Phone Meeting on Tuesday

Thought I would take a moment to update you on what is shaping up for this week in our adoption journey while I am staying home from church with 2 sick kiddos.  Last week I did a lot of research on different adoption agencies as we have been feeling like we might need to check out an additional agency as our current agency isn't being able to network out very well as she is so busy.  In contacting other agencies, I was amazed at how many were telling me that they were full and had more adoptive parents than babies to adopt out.  This seems to be a different trend than what we encountered 5 years ago - - which is amazing!!  I am glad that there are more families out there feeling the need/call to add to their family through adoption.

Anyway - - we have settled on checking out Angel Adoption.  Not only did they have a free online application (which is very rare), but they fit our budget range.  They also appear to be aggressive with advertising, which is not what we are used to at all.  We have a phone meeting with them this coming Tuesday, at 5:00 p.m.  We then wait to see if we have been approved as they only accept 6 new families a month. If we are approved, they give us a list of what they need so they can build a profile for us that can be shown to prospective birth mothers.  They would do the work for us - -which will be a huge relief for me as I feel like right now, I have had to be the pusher, instigator, etc, for any possible leads, which is what we are paying our social worker to do so that we don't have to.

It has been nice to have a slower week, so that we could recover from our emotional roller coaster ride from the past several weeks.  God is good and we know that in HIS timing, the right child will come along.

 “Before you were born, I dreamed of you, I imagined you, I prayed for you. Now that you’re here in my arms - I hope for you, I love you … I thank God for you.” ~Unknown

In the meantime, we are feeling that with the "shortage" of birth mothers available, we might need to expand our searching capabilities.  If we are accepted with Angel Adoption, we will drop out of the Adoption Share group (which we have to pay to be a member of), as most of the contacts from there have been way above our budget.

So for this week, you can be in prayer that both the agency and us will clearly feel God's leading and peace as we try to apply for membership with Angel Adoption.  I will update you when we find out where our status is at in regards to Angel Adoption.  Thank you for all of your support for us!