A Humble Plea for Help...

Tonight we are sad.

Tonight we are asking for your help.

We need your prayers. We need your faith.

Two weeks ago we found out that we had been chosen by a birth mother. We were thrilled- beyond words. She is due October 1st. Our nursery is set up. The car seat is ready to go.

We did not shout it from the roof tops because with adoption nothing is final until it's final.

Last week we found out that our birth mother had an emergency in Ohio with her family. Against all advice, and only a week and a half before she was due, she flew away promising to be back... by today. But an hour before she was to land she called her social worker and told her that she got the flu and could not fly.

We are devastated.

If she does not return to Utah and delivers in Ohio our cost would increase by at least $12,000 because she is not insured in Ohio. We would be required to fly there, pay all medical expenses and stay for up to two weeks.

This, added with the original expense of adoption, is just too much.

Please, from the bottom of our incredibly heavy hearts, pray that she will feel inspired- or even compelled to return. Pray that she will be healthy enough to fly. Pray that her labor will be delayed until she safely returns.

We already feel so completely attached to this baby girl and pray that she will become apart of our family.

But all we can do is pray.

We are ACTIVE

The word active seems like a simple one.

The dictionary defines it like this...

1. engaged in action; characterized by energetic work.
2. involving physical effort and action: active sports.
3. having the power of quick motion; nimble: active as a gazelle.

The dictionary does not define ACTIVE the way we are active.

As of today, after several interviews, piles of paper work, doctor appointments, background checks, creating a scrapbook of our lives and lots of prayers, our adoption profile is officially active.

So what does that mean exactly?

Our profile can finally be shown to birth mothers and we are another step closer to becoming parents.

We could still have a long road ahead of us,

but

it never felt so good to be active...