Adoption News!!

This is Samantha. She is our incredible caseworker. We believe that God picked her out just for us. Samantha is a Believer, too. She shared with me that the last thing that she does every night before she goes to sleep is to pray for Nevaeh. As you can see, Nevaeh loves Samantha too. She interacts with Samantha on a weekly basis and shows Samantha just how happy she is to be living here. Samantha doesn't have to come to the house every week but she loves Nevaeh so much and she loves coming here. We love that Samantha has a genuine interest in our little girl and she loves what she does. She is definitely the BEST caseworker! She's always there for us and truly works with our best interest in mind. We are grateful for everything that she has done in our behalf and thank God for His wisdom and loving care in bringing us together. GOD IS SO GOOD!

This is Mary Lou. She is the worker who represents Nevaeh's birth mother. She is also the powers that be where we are concerned since she is carrying the case that removed Nevaeh from her previous situation. Mary Lou is a very sweet girl as well and has Nevaeh's interests in mind. Mary Lou is the third representative for Nevaeh's birth mother and she is the best to date. The caseworkers were labeled "incoming", "ongoing", and "takeover" due to maternity leave. We believe that God has had His hand in lining up the right people in the right place at the right time. We can't say it enough. God truly is so good.

We had our meeting today and God just went over the top. He has taken everything that we had been told was impossible and made it happen above and beyond. We were informed today that we can indeed adopt Nevaeh. This was voluntary and actually the idea of the birth mother. Birth mother had just two requests. #1. That we would accept unborn sibling into our family at birth, and #2. That though she will not have visitations or interaction with the children we would be willing to send photos via postal mail through the caseworker, so that she can watch the children grow up in our family. You know it! We agreed. Her requests were reasonable. So now we are looking at a projected date for a finalized adoption to take place sometime in April of 2009. Our caseworker is amazed at the short time for such proceedings. Our new baby is due to arrive at the end of March. Hopefully, it can be worked out to finalize the adoption for both children at the same time. Hey, that's small stuff for our God, right? We cannot express what is in our hearts. I know that I have said it before in this post, but will you allow me to say it again? God is good all the time. All the time, God is good!