So I've had a lot of people asking me how the adoption process is going. Well…I don't really know. Let me catch y'all up.
In October I found a girl who was 7 months pregnant. We met and fell in love with each other. She was going to have us adopt her baby. However, the next day, she had a miscarriage. That really hurt a lot, but we were prepared to move on.
Well this birth mom wanted to get pregnant again for us. I thought that was so amazing, but I didn't plan for that to happen. Could it really be that easy??? She and I stayed in contact and the next month, she told me she was pregnant. I couldn't believe it!! She and I talked every day. I was so happy! We were so happy, but we kept this information to ourselves for awhile. After about 4 months, we started telling very few close friends and family. People were getting excited and started talking about planning a nursery and a shower. I was even meeting up with the birth mom for lunch. We started talking to an attorney and even met with him during spring break. The next week, the birth parents went to the attorney and signed papers.
As chance would have it, I knew her sister. Her sister came to see me one day and I talked to her about this pregnancy. Strangely enough, she didn't know a thing about it. The sister became very skeptical and decided that she was going to take the birth mom to the doctor an see what was going on. The birth mom hadn't been to the doctor since about 10 weeks pregnant, so I thought it was a great idea. The next day, the sister took the birth mom to the clinic and found out that there wasn't a pregnancy. The sister came to me and told me about it. I was pretty shocked. I didn't hear from the birth mom until much later that evening. I have no idea if anything she ever said to me was true because I haven't talked to her since that day. It was over a month ago. I've kept this information to myself for awhile because I was angry and I didn't want to blog about this until I had gotten past my anger. I was a lot more angry too because we now have attorney fees for something that will never happen. I'm not going to tell anyone how to feel, but please just pray for this person. She obviously has some issues to deal with. I've obviously left out a lot of information, but I wanted to tell the most necessary information.
Right now, Chris and I don't know what the next step is in our life. I want to thank all of you so much for all the donations and prayers that have been sent our way. We appreciate it more than any of you will ever know. We have been playing with the idea of fostering or housing exchange students. Also, I had diagnostic laparoscopy in March at my doctor's suggestion and the doctor found some endometriosis, so who knows what's next?? After all that's happened lately, I just need to time to pray and wait for what's next. I didn't know how I felt about putting this information out there, but I know a lot of people have been praying for us, and I wanted to give everyone an update. Please keep the prayers coming. I know God has something amazing in store for us, and I'm just trying to enjoy the ride He has us on.
