It sounds unbelievable, I know...

Sometimes things happen, when you least expect them to. God is really looking out for us. Remember that at the beginning of this week I wrote how I felt that we needed to do so much before we could be moving ahead and that my husband was so busy with work?

Last week we received an invitation to a child care class this week-end from our adoption agency we do the home study with. I definitely would like to do one as we have not really any experience in taking care of a newborn (apart from babysitting my godson when he was just six weeks old). The out of state adoption agency we would like to work with requires a childcare class and infant CPR. If you are also waiting to adopt, try to get that in as soon as possible. It is never bad to have taken those classes.

I didn't really want to go to a child care class with pregnant women around us. If we are the only ones that aren't pregnant, it might be hard for me. So I thought the class at our agency would be an excellent opportunity for us to do this in a safe environment with other hopeful adoptive parents. But I wanted to check with the out of state agency we would like to adopt with whether they would recognize that class. So I called after I got home yesterday (at least the time difference has something good to it). The lady I had talked with last week had left and I ended up talking to someone on the birth parent line. She asked me to call back today, but then she stopped. Then she said that the founder of the agency would like to talk to us in 15 minutes. I thought: "Wow, was an excellent opportunity to get all our questions answered!" So my husband and I had 15 minutes to prepare to get all our questions answered.

After 15 minutes we called. She answered our questions and asked us about our personal circumstances. It turns out they have two available situations she would like to present us to. One is a biracial baby and one is African-American. One is due this month, the other one next month.

We told her that we didn't have our profile set up and were still working on the birth parent letter. She said she needed our application information asap to release it to one of the attorneys they are working with. She was great and took a lot of time to talk to us.

Our questions are all answered and we feel very strongly that we would like to work with this agency. It is amazing which opportunities God is throwing our way. He really knows the desires of our heart.

We ended up working on our application and preparing a quick power point presentation with some pictures of us and emailed it last night. Can you believe this? We might become parents rather sooner than later. Our application was sent in and they will present us to these two birth mothers. I am terrified because we are not prepared yet. I will contact our agency to see whether I can still sign up for the child care class this week-end.