Here we go again!

This is Michael.

This morning when my employees came to work one of them came and asked me that if she got pregnant would we want the baby. I said that I would bring it up to Sandra. I know that the employee's heart is clearly in the right place. She has a strong desire to possibly help those that cannot have children by being the vessel. It was obviously something that we, for a short time, thought about seriously considering.

Then around lunchtime the attorney's office called and said that they had a new birth mother that they were going to meet and wanted to show our profile to her. We said ok, but obviously we lacked much of the contained enthusiasm from the previous profile viewing.

She called back later that afternoon and said that the birth mother chose us. So we are very cautiously approaching this process. Most of the caution is from a financial stance, so we are going to look at everything closely, but we think that things should work out well enough. So here is the information we know so far:

* Mother is caucasian, dad is an illegal immigrant =)
* Mother is 35, light skin, blueish/green eyes, light brown hair 125 lbs. (pre-pregnancy)
* Mother has twin boys, 2.5 years old who are a handful, which is why she is choosing to put the baby up for adoption
* Mother is "due" October 27 - yes, I know =)
* Not sure, but it may be a boy. Two sonograms have been done, but have not been able to verify the gender of the child
* This Wednesday she will go to her doctors appointment and they will schedule the C-section, so we will have a definite date and time planned in advance (which Sandra is really happy about).
*She is planning to have the C-section at Brandon Regional hospital

We are surely going to take this moment by moment, but wanted to share with everyone we could the latest news. Will keep you posted. Thanks again for your prayers during the last whirlwind 8 days.

This is Sandra.

Amazed...that is all I can say. God is good all the time. He had a perfect plan even when we were going through all the emotions of this past week. I almost cannot fathom that His plan might include us being parents within the next month. Thank you for your prayers. Please continue on. We will keep you updated as we know more.

God is good...all the time...especially when I hurt...and when His plan is to turn those tears to rejoicing in such a short period of time I can only praise Him more.

There is no doubt that this was all part of His plan and that He is in control. There is nothing else to do but to give Him glory in this situation.