A weekend of Hope

We are so amazed by the calls, notes, texts, and face time we have gotten with friends and family since we announced our adoption just a few weeks ago!!  So many of your hearts are so open to this process, I know this baby is going to have more aunts and uncles that he or she will know what to do with!!  We are so blessed to be surrounded with such a supportive network of life.

This weekend, we talked about our little one in the present tense for the first time.  It was not "what are we going to do if we have a baby ..." it was "do we need this upstairs? downstairs? why did we buy a 2-story house?!"  Luckily my parents came over for Sunday dinner and calmed a lot of our fears ... and mom saying she plans on being here whenever we need her helped, too =)

Then we talked about placement ... a part of a baby story most people never know about ... do we hope for the best and take little bitty home from the hospital?  Do we do interim care?  These are the little things that occur to you as an adoptive parent that do not really cross your mind otherwise ... but I had a sense of peace about it for the first time.  I was thinking to myself, I am built for this.  I make people feel comfortable, I am trustworthy, and I am going to make sure there is a relationship there for this birth mom;

  just like God is going to give us her, He is going to give her us.

I like hope.  It is contagious ... and I want to be deep in hope all the time =)