Happy Thanksgiving!

This is what I'm so thankful for. I am so blessed. Thank you Lord for blessing me so much more than what I deserve. 

3 years ago

It was 3 years ago today our lives changed dramatically.

After submitting our profile to 7 different situations, all to be told we weren't matched, we finally got the email that a birth mother had chosen us.

Rather than being excited, we were extremely shocked and confused. The particular situation they were saying we had matched with was a situation we had decided not to submit our profile to because of the high medical and lawyer costs.

When we got the email, I immediately called our consultant who said what we had been waiting to hear for so long "It sounds like you just matched! Congratulations!". Then I explained the situation to her and like me, she was confused. We thought maybe the email was meant to go to someone else.

After what seemed like many emails and phone calls, we found out that our profile had been submitted in error but the birth mother had chosen us. The baby was ours if we wanted her. They would give us 24 hours to decide if we wanted the baby.

Honestly, from the minute they said we had been chosen, it was legitimate, and the baby was ours if we wanted her, it wasn't a question of whether we wanted the baby--this baby was our daughter. The only question going through my head was how in the world were we going to come up with $10,000 in less than 6 weeks?

Anyone who has followed our story knows how that ended. :) With so much support from family, friends, church family and bloggers from all over the world--most I've never met--we were able to raise the $10,000 almost down to the penny.

I knew this was a God thing. Only God could've had our profile submitted after we had requested it not to be submitted. Even the agency couldn't explain it and had a couple meetings with their staff about this situation. They couldn't figure out how it happened.

I knew how.

We found out 3 years ago today that we were going to be parents and we were chosen. God chose us long before that. It was in His timing, grace and miraculous ways that He brought Hannah to us.

His timing is perfect. What a blessed 3 years it has been.