What do you do when...

You are asked if you want to adopt an unborn baby??? SSSCREAM AND PEE YOUR PANTS! Well that's what I would do. (okay no I didn't but WOW!!!)

A long-time friend of mine called me tonight and asked me a couple of odd questions about our Agency allowing another baby to be adopted into our home. Hmmm "well it is more detailed than just permission".

C: "What would your agency do if you were presented with someone who wanted you to adopt their baby?"

Me: "Well the only thing is that Bear has to be 18 months old first (there is a limit of no more than 2 babies under the age of 18 mos.) He is now almost 15 months old so we have 3 more months... Why, how old is said baby?"

C: "It's not even born yet, but the mother knows she cannot raise another baby and called me to see if we would want to adopt it but we cannot. I told her about you and she told me to ask you if you would do it."

Me: I can almost here some kind of sad music in the background because this is just not the random phone call in the evening kind of day. Good things tend to take some kind of toll first on me. Then after I am all beaten up and limping I can have the ice cream. In other words nothing good seems to happen without some kind of STIPULATION in my experiences. So all that said I am still very skeptical that this would happen for us.

Me: " We would love to do it if she is serious. I will have to make some calls to our attorney to see what all needs to happen but other than that I would ask that you keep in contact with her and let me know what all is going on and I will need an address so as to send some paperwork for her to fill out and such if she is indeed prepared to go through with this."

C: "She is prepared. Her situation does not allow for another child to raise. She wants it to stay in a somewhat "circle" of friends so that she can keep in some form of contact (open adoption) and all. I told her you would probably be interested in that."

Me:"Well I will get all the information and mail it to her and let you know what is going on so to stay updated on what all is going on"

Is this really happening? Again it is too far in the future to tell for sure. Apparently the mother is only approximately 2 months along and that would make her due in August... My B.day is in August... That would be SWEET!... But I am taking everything in stride because I am not sure what is going to happen. I mean I know of way too many situations where the BM sees the baby and cannot go through with it so then the Adoptive family is left hurting and empty nested. We will of course still have Bear and hopefully Moe but that would stink nonetheless! I will keep you all updated on what is going on with this situation. I am asking for your prayer and heart felt encouragement if you have any to share.

On another note... if this said baby does enter into our home, pray that God would indeed bless us with a different vehicle to transport our brood! Our Camry is packed out with two toddler car seats in the back. Sad right! Let's not even talk about the jeep (if we ever needed to get into that with all children.) Who knows what will even happen with Moe by that time. I am hoping for an adoptive future with him also but he has a lot of family that may come forward to adopt him first. Again, who but God knows our future... so in HIM I will rest my trust and lean not on my own understanding (Not even the understanding of how to fit 3 carseats in the back of a Toyota Camry; very carefully and snugly!!!)!