We thought it was the right time to go ahead and share our BIG NEWS here on the blog! We have been matched with a birthmom and are expecting a little girl at the end of March! We are so excited and still processing what it might be like around here with a GIRL!!!! Our birthmom, I will call her Miss L on the blog, is from Cincinnati and we have talked on the phone once and done a little bit of emailing back and forth. She is very sweet and confident about her decision to choose adoption.
We were officially matched with Miss L on January 2nd...what a great way to ring in the new year! We shared the news with our families, but felt like it might not be best to go public with anything until we had talked to Miss L. There was something about that phone call that seemed similar to making it past the first trimester in a biological pregnancy. The anticipation of that call was a bit of an emotional roller coaster. We rescheduled 2 different times before we were able to connect with Miss L. Our social worker reassured us that this wasn't abnormal and happens more often than we probably thought it did. Turns out she had gotten hit with the flu pretty badly and was trying to catch up on sleep. We were finally able to talk to her on January 13th and it was so great! Yes, it was definitely awkward at times, but overall it was so reassuring to be able to talk to her and get to know her a bit. She was very curious about what it is like in Kansas and we tried really hard to convince her it wasn't all farms and tornadoes out here! We spent this week sharing the good news with the people we wanted to share it with in person before sharing the news publicly online.
We have a couple of really specific prayer requests to share with you:
-Please pray for Miss L! Pray for her health, her heart, her family, and anything else that is laid on your heart.
-Pray for baby girl! We don't have many medical records, so there isn't anything specific other than her general health.
-Pray for our finances. I will share a more in-depth post about our finances, but we still need to raise about $7,000.
Thanks for joining with us in this journey! We couldn't do it without you!
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