Its been quite awhile since I have last posted. The kids have gotten into their regular routines with school and for the most part loving it! Anne has been busy going to practices for the musical she will be participating in at the end of March. We are so excited for this opportunity for her and can't wait to see her perform. Adia continues to do well with her reading. Jonathan is continuing to take speech therapy. Jaydon continues to grow in every way into a little boy!
Our life had been going along pretty "normally" when all of a sudden we received a phone call around 9:30 p.m., on Friday from one of the social workers we had worked with on our adoption journey to Jaydon. Turns out this social worker also worked with Mommy D for some of her previous pregnancies. When I saw the number on caller id., I just knew it had to be about Mommy D. Talk about all the thoughts that went through my mind at that point! This social worker had gone to visit Mommy D, who is in jail last week and Mommy D had requested that she get in touch with us and ask us to write to her while she was in jail. We don't know why she is asking us to write to her, but we have chosen to go ahead and communicate with her, as the social worker encouraged us to do so. However, we "wrote" a note and then emailed it to the social worker so that when she goes back to visit Mommy D this week, that she can take the note with her. We don't know why she is asking us to communicate with her as its been 15 months since we have last seen or heard from her, but after talking with the social worker we do have a couple of possible ideas as to what she might be wanting. If it is because of what we are thinking, we will need all the prayers we can get for wisdom as we will have to make some decisions. I'll update you more, when I know more. Hopefully after the visit this week, which I believe could take place on Wednesday, hopefully we will have a clearer picture as to what is going on in her life.
Not only is this news causing us a lot of thought, but after talking with the social worker who was describing another adoptive couple who had another one of Mommy D's children, we put two and two together and figured out who that adoptive couple is. Jaydon has a sister that is living in a Christian home not very far away!! That is just so exciting for me, that we have been able to put together at least a little bit of his family history for him for when he is older. I didn't think we would ever find out where any of his siblings were living. It turns out that the adoptive father that has Jaydon's sister, is someone with whom I went to school. Now I am trying to reach out to the adoptive family to see if we can make a connection! So far, this isn't going very smoothly as I am trying to reach out to the adoptive mom, and she doesn't have a clue who I am. So I am going to try a couple of more ideas that we have and then I may just have to drop the search as I don't want the adoptive family to think I am trying to stir up trouble or stalk them. Please pray for wisdom in this area! I so badly want to make a connection with this family for Jaydon's sake, but I also want to stop pushing if God is closing the door to make that happen. Either way, we have come away with valuable information for Jaydon so that if nothing comes of this, he should have some information to search with when he is older.
My mind has been in a whirlwind since that phone call, and I am trying to not be anxiously awaiting the phone call from the social worker with an update after her visit with Mommy D.
As for Adia, she has been asking a lot more questions about her birth family lately, which is only natural and to be expected. She wanted to send her birth mother a valentine, so we chose to go ahead and let her do that. So far, we have not received a response back, and Adia is wondering why she hasn't heard anything. So please pray for us as we deal with this and how to cautiously approach how much communication there will be in the future. We want to take "forward" moving steps only when all parties are ready for the next step!
Thanks for praying!
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