Yay! All praise to God! Today we met with our social worker and the state adoption social worker and got official news that the parents did not file an appeal and we're moving ahead to the adoptive placement and should be finalized by the end of September! Wow. We are all kinda amazed that they didn't file seeing as how they have stretched this out up to this point. I have been preparing myself the whole time for an appeal because it happens so often and because they have fought it along the way, but I knew that if they didn't it would be God's hand in this. It feels like our own little miracle. The social workers were happily surprised too, we just all kinda figured they would appeal. I was preparing myself for it but I kept feeling like God was telling me that he was fighting this for us, the whole way and that I didn't need to worry about it. And at church we kept singing a song during worship that I just felt God speaking to me each time "And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us? And if our God is with us then who can stand against?" I kept holding tight to that, and I feel like that happened. I am so happy and relieved. I cannot wait for the girls to be truly truly ours in a few months.
Today went over a bunch of paperwork and the state adoption worker told us how the rest of the process would go, and explained how everything would be kept confidential, that there wouldn't be a trail that the parents could find them, and that we can even finalize the adoption in our county instead of the county where they were placed. We even get new birth certificates with our names on them! Not that we won't be telling the girls they were adopted, they will grow up knowing that, but the birth parents are not people I want to be able to find us. And I want the girls to know they are ours, regardless of the DNA make up they have.
So good news today. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us, we really appreciate it. Continued prayers for our family to be bonding together and continue to become a whole unit are appreciated as well. Thank you all.
