The beginning of forever

My husband and I are creating our family through adoption from foster care. We have always said "Lets continue to do foster care after we get our cute little family", so the plan is to adopt 3-4 kids and in the future continuing to do foster care when our kids are a little older. If we did bring in a child that may go back to his/her biological family we wanted that risk to be very low. We didn't want to go through the pain of losing a child that we were planning on adopting. Our plans don't always match up with Gods plans. He definitely had something else planned for our family.

(Baby Bret!)

 

 

When we brought our son home he was 6 months old. He was the cutest little chunk ever! We fell in love instantly. He was a low risk child and our adoption process went very smoothly. He was adopted when he was 20 months old.
After Brets adoption we immediately got our homestudy done and had our name on the list for another child. We waited just over one year until we got "The Call", but it wasn't the call we were expecting. This call was about a little girl that needed a safe place to stay for  a while. They wanted to place her in a home that would want to adopt just in case she would become adoptable. This was a hard decision for us to make because we knew that we would probably lose her. What kept going through my head was this may not be my child but its God's child and she needs a safe place to live. How can I argue with that!? I had a peace about the decision that my husband and I made. This little girl needed a safe home and we were going to give it to her.
She is the sweetest and funniest little girl. We have enjoyed getting to see her personality slowly come out. She calls us Mommy and Daddy. She loves to sing. She LOVES her new brother Bret. This little girl instantly stole our hearts.
Its been 3 months of uncertainty. We have had good news and not so good news, but we always stood firm on knowing that God had us in His hands leading our family to do His will.

Today there was a court hearing and parental rights were terminated!!! We are looking at an adoption finalization near March of 2015!
We were not expecting this to happen today. In fact, we weren't expecting this at all! The news of the adoption was a complete surprise.

Praise the Lord we have a forever daughter!.....and she's the darn cutest thing ever!

Blessings,
Danae