Closure

We met with our caseworker this afternoon to talk about everything. She had just gotten off the phone with Tiana's pregnancy counselor when we arrived. Tiana's mom finally called the counselor back and explained everything. Tiana's mom said that her other children (late 20's, who have children of their own) all thought Tiana and her mom weren't thinking straight and didn't understand why Tiana didn't go through with the adoption. Once Tiana had expressed a change of mind, her mom sort of flopped as well and was totally on her side to keep the baby. It sounds like Tiana's mom will probably doing a lot of the care-taking, and there will be no going back on their decision to keep the baby.

We knew this was a possibility going into adoption, but we never thought it would actually happen to us. Our caseworker said that in the 2 years she's been with the agency, this is the first placement that has come this far and failed. It gives us hope that our baby will come to us through adoption. A huge part of me wanted to get off the list, because I do not feel we can go through this again. All in all, I know that we want to be a mom and dad, and we must keep that in mind.

We have chosen to go back on the wait listl again. If we feel that is not the right path later, we will find another way to expand our family.

So, here we are. Beginning the waiting period all over again (I can't believe I'm actually writing that...I thought our wait had ended with Baby Finn). Again, thank you all so much for being so supportive and keeping us in your prayers. We are so very blessed.