New Opportunity!!

I wouldn't label us as the inpatient type but for some reason I go every few days and then start re-evaluating our adoption plan.  I sit in front of the computer, Google agency's, look over all the kids waiting to be adopted here in TN and surrounding states, wonder if we should be doing a foster/adopt.  I have called adoption attorney's, social services just to continue educating myself and exhausting all our efforts.  This waiting period kinda leaves me feeling in limbo.  Yes I have a family to care for and a daughter to raise at the same time which means I have plenty to do, but I just can't help myself.  Joe on the other hand prepared for this waiting time, he thinks he'll be feeling more inpatient and curious a little further down the road.  But those of you who know me, when I put my mind to something I go at it full force until whatever it is, is achieved.  And to me this is just like anything else.  In a way, similar to P90X.  I get up, work at it, feel empowered, then fall asleep and have to do it all over again for a certain amount of time to get results.  Without results  you wouldn't do it so I called another agency today and received extremely positive information/results regarding waiting with them and completed all necessary paperwork, ordered more profile books (which if you don't own stock in Shutterfly I recon you should) and on Monday our profile is going to be viewed.  Furthermore, this agent pretty much guarantees she will be "sending some mom's our way".  Now, I don't really know what that means except for it sounding very optimistic, exciting, and simply positive!  When I spoke with this agent on the phone today, after discussing our criteria for adopting she stated that she is visiting with 2 birth mom's on Monday that fit our criteria.  All I did was inquire if we were at a place where our profile would be viewed by these mom's and that was her response.  I Can't believe I started this process on a Friday and have to wait till Monday for some answers.  It felt right.  I didn't feel like this agency was trying to sell their services like a ton I've spoken too.  Sometimes things just make sense and this was one of them, only it had a higher price tag to wait with them than the others have.  Before signing anything I of course called our social worker here.  I discussed it all with Amanda, she checked everything out and gave me a thumbs up.  So here we are waiting with another agency.  I can't help but get excited each time our opportunities to be picked grow!  Now I'm pretty sure waiting with four different agencies is plenty and if I keep adding one a week someone needs to come help me!!!

On another note, A friend of mine from years ago reached out because she heard we were adopting and she is as well.  She has had a tough road with her adoption and long story short, the birth mom has the baby back after a couple of months of my friend raising her and she is just devastated.  Please pray for the little girl Mia to be safe and well taken care of.  My friend still has a chance to get her daughter back but still doesn't know.  In the meantime she and her husband are fostering a baby boy named Jacob who was born addicted to opiates and needs opium every so many hours and they might also be able to adopt him, please pray that he is going to be a healthy, strong boy! 

I will keep you all posted as to what next week holds as far as this agency "sending mom's my way"!!