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Eddie, April & Nathan
Dear ANLC Family,
“We’ve been selected.” Isn’t it amazing the life changing impact that can come from three little words? My wife spoke these three little words, amidst tears of joy, as her call made my routine commute home, anything but routine.
”What are you doing?” she asked? “Crying”, I replied. “Crying and driving”. All the sadness and sorrows of infertility washed away with this news. We would be parents, a mommy and daddy, excited and fearful. Streams of questions flooded my mind. Where does the birthmother live? How far along is she? What is she like? What made her choose us? Is the baby a boy or a girl?
What a joyous reunion, as my wife and I embraced to celebrate. We had so many people to call and share our joy …parents, sisters, brothers, friends and family. All of the people who lifted us up in prayer could now join in the celebration to the answer to prayer.
On the call with Adoption Network Law Center later that night, we listened with excitement as Ellen, our Birthmother Advisor, described this most special birthmother whose decision would forever change our lives. Ellen sounded excited for us. No detail was insignificant. We soaked it all in. Taking notes so as to not let our excitement allow us to forget a single detail.
“Her birthday is April 26”, Ellen said. “Did she say April 26?” “Could we have heard that wrong?” We asked Ellen to repeat the birth date. Again she repeated “April 26.” Silence. Tears. More silence. When we could gather our composure, we informed Ellen that April 26th was my wife’s birthday as well. These two women, birthmother and adoptive mother, would forever share birthdays as well as a deep love for this precious child.
God wanted us to know that this was not a random meeting of lives. He wanted to put his signature on this. He had this planned before any of us were born, but felt compelled to let us in on his plans this night.
Ellen suggested we try to meet the birthmother in person. We traveled to meet her and her parents. We made a scrapbook of pictures of grandparents, coworkers, sports buddies, sisters, brothers, cousins, and pets all holding the same handmade sign of greeting. We wanted to paint a picture of all the wonderful people that would be a part of this child’s life. The last page of the scrapbook was a picture of my wife and me holding a sign that just said “Thank you”. We grew to love the birthmother and her family and will continue to let our son know how very much he is loved and how special they are.
We have had the most exciting, wonderful, joyful seven months of our life with our precious baby Nathan. He is truly a Gift from God. We are getting our finances together now, so that we can adopt a brother or sister for Nathan.
Our adoption experience has been storybook. We were blessed with an awesome birthmother, her supportive parents and family, the caring support of Adoption Network Law Center. We have been truly blessed and want to continue to grow our family. In our words and our actions, our hearts desire as parent is to impact our son’s life with the life changing three little words … “We love you!”
Thanks again and may God continue to bless you,
Eddie, April & Nathan
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