As most of you know we were chosen to adopt this baby this summer/early fall. But mid-way through the summer his birthmom decided that she wanted to raise him instead and so the adoption fell through. We were heartbroken and devastated of course but we had no choice but to move on with our lives and just keep praying for the baby and for his mom. I wanted so much to blog about what I was feeling but the hurt was just too raw that I never could...I just felt so close to this baby and to his mom and when she changed her mind everything changed and we no longer had any contact. In September we heard that he was born and that he was doing good...so we continued to pray for his little life and that if by some chance God wanted to open the door for us again that He could...and only He could! Well about 4 weeks ago, late one night I got a text message from his mom...she was checking to see how Natee was doing because Natee had just been sick with a stomach bug and I had posted on Facebook that I had just survived my first night with a puking child (the one thing I dread most about being a mom is having to clean up any sort of puke...except for spit-up...that is different...thank goodness Jon was home that night and he was my hero taking care of everything so all I had to do was rock Natee and only deal with a little bit of throwing up)...anyway...I got off track there...so she texted to see how Natee was doing and it just all lead to us talking about the baby (James) and how she was starting to think that adoption might be the answer. Talk about getting a little excited. So we all took time to really pray about it and see if this is where God was leading all of us. About a week later she came to visit us and boy did we fall in love right away! It was also so good to see his mom again and catch up with her and reconnect. And Natee fell in love right away too...she kept asking for "baby" and looking around to see where he was. After that weekend she had made up her mind that she did in fact want us to adopt him and so we went to the agency and our lawyers and got all the papers signed. We then had to wait for the custody papers to get signed by a judge and that took about 5 days...so on Monday, November 7th we met for lunch and after lunch little James was on his way home with us. It was such a good day :) And then since we have to wait 10 working days before it is all final we had about a week left of waiting...which actually went really fast...his birthmom assured us that she was not going to change her mind...that she had made her decision...but there is a little part of you that is on pins and needles that whole time...I believe that is human nature :) haha! So anyway...the 15th at 2:35 came and went and James is our baby boy now :) We are so blessed and can not say it enough...GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!!!
Well this post has taken me about 2 days to write because I keep getting interrupted! It's definitely taken awhile to get used to having two kids but I think I will do just fine :) I just need to learn time management which has always been my problem....just ask Jon...he hates the fact that I'm always about 5 minutes late to everything...I swear I try I just can't do it...I can't be on time!! Oh well. Well I'd better run here for now...and just to give you a heads up so that you are not confused when you check on us later we are planning on changing his name...we love the name James Michael...it has meaning for his birthmom as she named him after special guys in her life and actually James is Jon's dad's name and Michael is my dad and brother's middle name so it works perfectly in our family too but we want him to have his own name and not the same one as his grandpa...plus there is something about getting to name your own baby...so we are still mulling over ideas and trying to figure out what his name is...we will let you know when we find the perfect one for him! :)
4 comments:
What an awesome story! God is SO good!! Congratulations--we are so incredibly happy for you guys. Lots of love,
~Amanda
So incredible excited for you all! Tell Jon he better be ready for you to be more like 15 min late most days with 2 little ones to get ready :)
Cayla and Mike
Feeling your pain and blessings. My wife and I have adopted 4 infant children. We had 7 failed adoptions in the process of adopting the four we do have. We had birthmothers change their minds after we booked airline tickets (on 2 occasions), after we flew and witnessed the birth (on 2 occasions), after we cared for the infant for 3 1/2 months we had to return her to a found bio father (hardest thing I have ever done), and a couple birthmoms that just changed their mind.
Adoptioning is awesome, I wouldn't change it for anything, but as you have learned it is not for the faint of heart.
God Bless!
congratulations on the adoption of Bennett. I'd been just browsing blogger, and I came across your blog. I read your other blog about your beautiful angels as well. I think you both show amazing strength to be able to hold it together for each other, and move on to build a family. There is a great charity called Reece's Rainbow, and perhaps, in the future, if you wish to adopt, you could check them out. I don't know if you'd be willing to adopt special needs kids, but some of them have health issues that, when treated by doctors here, could mean they'd be able to live fulfilling lives. Immediately upon reading your blog, I thought of this charity, and I thought I should mention their angels to you... you seem like the kind of forever family these kids need!
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