The Journey begins again!

The past long months have been really crazy for our family! We have wanted to expand our family for Elijah having someone to play with and we wanted to influence children in a good way. We decided to do foster care after much prayer. We got licensed for it and we’re good and complete with not adopting through foster care because we knew reunification was best for the children and we did not want to be disappointed or hurt in anyway. Setting the expectation for that was ahead of time was what we needed. Some time has gone by and still no placements, it has been 4 months now. Our son all of sudden started saying to us Mommy and Daddy, I want a baby brother or sister. Like Maddie and A.J because they are brother and sister (who are his cousins).

Hmm… made us start to think about trying again, honestly trying to add to our family for our little guy. So we decided for the month of July to start fasting every Sunday, prayed to receive a answer  on what to do to expand our family, and after attended the temple every week. This past week we finally received our answer.  On Thursday the 5th of July we received a phone call from Adoption Center of Choice, from Dave, or shall we say his fake name, he left a message on our answer machine. He said I wanted to see how you guys are doing and see if you have adopted yet or are still looking for your baby. Well at the time my hubby was sleeping and it woke him up he heard this msg. Then he feel back a sleep and he had a dream.  It started off completely different about a friend he found and was talking to them she ran off and he went to go find her.  Jason ran to our parking lot and  he was helping me find our baby,  there were lots of people adopting. It was so weird…. Then he woke up. My hubby shared his dream with me and I took it as revelation that we are suppose to adopt. I felt like that was an answer.   

 My hubby said to call the agency and  let’s see what there fee’s are. I did and my jaw dropped after calling him back I felt heartbroken after hearing the fee’s…  We begun by answering a few questions like what we are interested in, baby wise, then he said what is your budget your willing to work with.. We told him our budget, he said sorry you don’t qualify because our fee’s start off at $20,000-40.000 which does not include travel etc. I was heartbroken he said we have 8 birthmothers right now and if you could pay this you would not have to wait and you would get a baby… I thought well of course anyway one can get a baby if they pay that amount. Then my hubby suggested going through LDS Family services again. He said he actually was receiving the promptings a month in a half ago and actually did not want to tell me because he knew how giddy and excited I would be. Getting on the ball… He said he wanted to make sure this was something he really wanted to do before telling me. He said he actually has never been so baby hungry and when he see’s families with kids he wants that for us. He now understands how it feels to want a baby and is ready for it.

 I just cried and thought wow!!! Lord is wonderful to answer us. We thank our family and friends for praying for us and fasting we have received our answer and we are going to start the process and grow our family through LDS Family services. We are really excited and know that it is by God’s hand that we were led in this direction and this is something we need to do. We are just so excited and our baby boy is going to be able to have a brother or sister, or both. Whatever God sends us. Funny thing is a few nights ago our son prayed to heavenly father saying I want a brown brother and sister like Maddie, or a brother like A.J please heavenly father send them to us. Wow those are powerful words coming from a 4 yr old. His cousins, are brother and sister and they look alike so I guess my boy wants someone that looks like him. We are a rainbow family and we will gladly except whatever babies or baby the lord sends are way... We are so excited for this adventure. Let the paperwork begin here is to our baby or babies 2012 is going to be a great year!!!!

God is real and he knows us and he loves us so much he has plans for us and wants us all to be happy here on earth if we will just put are trust in him and have faith. He will bless us with all that we need and answer us  and we can not wait to begin this Journey. So travel along with us as we begin this process at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adoption-Genesis-and-Jason-hoping-to-add-another-one-to-our-family/242641369112443