An unexpected turn...but GREAT news!

This post is extremely hard for me to put into words. Our path has drastically changed but we are ever so gratelful for this miraculous opportunity. As of June our profile was going to be taken out of the Domestic program profiles as our year was up and we were not going to update it. We have been focused on the Ethiopian program; we have done extensive research on the culture and it's people and have really fallen in love with it. We could not wait to have a child to call our own from there. We have met some wonderful families who have gone through or are going through the process. We have had quite the experience and have made some great relationships because of it.

On May 5 I received a phone call from our social worker stating that a woman who was expecting had chosen our profile as well as two others that she was interested in possibly meeting to parent her child. Angie (our social worker) told us that normally she wouldn't place a call like this to prospective adoptive parents unless she knew for certain that a match meeting was wanted from the birth mother but Angie knew our plans to pull out of the Domestic program and we were so focused on Ethiopia. This birthmother was to call back in a week and let them know if she did indeed want a match meeting. Angie said that there were a lot of factors that could possibly happen so it wasn't probable that a match meeting would be asked of us but in the event it was she wanted us to have the next week to think about it and wrap our fingers around the idea. She called back two hours later and asked if we had enough time to think about it because the birthmother requested a match meeting with US! We were dumbfounded. There were alot of things we needed to consider in a very short period of time but we decided to have the match meeting. To make a very long story short...we finally had our match meeting Wednesday May 27 and on Friday May 29 we got a phone call from her birth counselor saying that she really liked us and would like for us to be the parents of her baby!

It's a girl...and she is due August 15! I would like to share more news about this miracle but will wait to do so in another post. For now we just wanted to share our soon-to-be new arrival!

And Ethiopia is not out of the picture...just "on hold".

We couldn't be more excited!