Flashback

I was remembering today that it was a year ago this month that we were all in a tizzy over a possible baby boy. We got the phone call Thursday March 4th, had the meeting cancelled March 12th, sent out the emergency "we need money" plea on March 18th, the baby boy was born on March 24th and found out on Thursday March 25th that he was not our baby.

If you click on that last link "he was not our baby" you will see the very last line of that post says "Maybe there is another little bun in the oven waiting for us...who knows...."

We actually knew about Olivia at that time. In this post when I mentioned that we had missed a call at 7pm about that baby, but had a voicemail, it was about the new birthmom. We were at small group when I noticed I had missed a call. I remember my heart thudding in my chest as I saw it was from the adoption agency. Our lives might be changing at a moments notice (I don't know if I said it, but we had even picked out a name for the little boy. We won't tell what it is because we still kind of like it and may use it if we are ever blessed with a boy). Matt was sitting at the table with our small group and I walked up to Matt and made him listen to the voicemail, which was something along the lines of...
...he was born today at 3pm, she is not sure what she is going to do, but if this falls through, we have another birth mom who wants to meet you. She picked you a long time ago, before this current birth mom did, then decided to not place the baby, and has now recently changed her mind again. She would like to meet you.
I remember Matt and I sitting there stunned. Another birthmom. I knew at that moment we wouldn't be placed with the boy. I knew, I just knew, that this other baby was ours. I knew I was right all along, the Lord used the first birthmom as a kick in the pants to get our finances in order. I knew because of the miraculous way the Lord had provided the money, that we were going to have this second baby.
We got an email that night with all the details of this new birthmom and her story. That was when we found out we would be having another girl. I forwarded that email to Matt and he emailed back, "Ok, let's meet her. And Lord willing, let's go on the list again, I think I'd like three kids." Which made me smile because he has only ever wanted two.
We waited to say something about it until we had the meeting time scheduled. We didn't want to jump the gun and announce something that might not happen. But we still wanted to say something because we wanted prayers.
I am so grateful for our miraculous adoption stories. I had someone say to me once, "How can she (meaning a friend of mine) not believe in God after experiencing the miracle of birth." I never said, but wished I had, "She adopted, and no, I don't know how she doesn't believe in God after experiencing the miracle of adoption."