Expecting

We're in that phase similar to pregnancy when it's nearing your due date and you just want to meet your baby, but you also know it's going to be a lot more work once they're on the outside :)

Tuesday, February 13th, D's mom made the intensely difficult decision to surrender her parental rights to D and his three siblings. For any who might wonder, "how could a mom do that?", after seeing J's mom drag out her case for over 4 years, I see how this can be an even more loving act than I could have imagined. In court, a DHS worker said D should be moved over to our home by the end of the week....think when a contractor tells you the job should only take a week :) We have learned that there was a caseworker that left the agency, creating more paper shuffling,  and the entire case is switching over to our private agency to handle their temporary foster placements as well as adoptions. This second piece was actually welcomed news because we were originally told they had to turn down the case on the adoption side because of inadequate staffing, so we would need to practically start over with an adoption profile with a different agency- so thankful for that! I got a call just now as I was typing, and also found out that 2 different cousins of the family down in Texas have called to look into taking all of the siblings. Back to that last post- continually trusting that our desires, a true need, and God's plan will all be made known in time. If there are appropriate family members able to care for these children and keep them together, it would be hard now that I have set my heart on a particular vision for the future, but we would also be thankful for the chance for these children to be together with loving family pursuing them from across the U.S. They have a lot of steps to go through, and the agencies are still planning to move D over to us as soon as possible, but it will be looming in the back of my mind, and a regular prayer request. So with a bed, clothes, car seat, name letter on the wall, etc. in place- we wait expectantly for at least the next step in the process- getting D back under our roof.