Excitement - Prayers needed

Today we received an email from Generations Adoption that there could be another Fast Forward in our adoption process. They have a birthmother who has not been able to match with any of the currently approved families and they want to know if we would be interested in showing our profile to her. This could happen as soon as next week, yes just a few days away and before we are even "approved" for adoption. You may be asking - what is a profile. Let me go through the steps really quickly for what a typical adoption should look like if the steps are taken in order.

Step 1 - Application, interview, orientation
Step 2 - 8 hour training class
Step 3 - Home study
Step 4 - Approved by agency, profile can be shown to birthmothers
Step 5 - Birthmother picks family and they meet
Step 6 - Baby born, placement of baby with family

I've combined some of the steps to condense them, there are actually 10 steps but you can easily see that we could be attending our 8 hour training class on the same day that our profile is being shown to this birthmother, skipping the home study and final approval by agency steps. This is HUGE!!!

Now - a profile is a one page information sheet about us. We describe ourselves together, some of our history, each of us individually and why we are pursuing adoption to start our family. The back of the page can be filled with pictures that show some of our hobbies and extended family. It is hard to put our whole lives down into one page of text but it is the only fair way to show several different families at one time to a birthmother. Once she decides which family she wants her baby to go to, a meeting is arranged so that we can meet the birthmother face-to-face.

So, what do we know. She is 19 years old and both she and her mother are wanting the adoption to happen. She is due in July and it is a boy. I don't want to get to excited, but Jenny and I have both been saying several times over the past few weeks that we think we are going to get a boy some time in July. We just continue to give everything up to God and know that he is in control. This is under his timetable and if it is his will for us to get this baby then it will happen.

We can't thank you enough for your continued prayers. We are in Pipe Creek, Texas this weekend picking up items from Jenny's parents that we can sell in our garage sale. I just pray that it doesn't rain next weekend or we are going to have a house full of stuff and legally can't have another garage sale for 30 days.

I'm sure we will write much more over this next week as it appears it will be very eventful.

Gig 'Em,
Jerry