Adoption update...

A lot of people have been wondering what is going on with our adoption and so I thought I would write this post to better explain. On Thursday, we were a bit torn on finding out that the birth father had hired an attorney and finding out that we really didn't have a case. On Friday, when Ron was on his way to the temple, he received a call from P and she was asking if there was any way that we could contest what the birth father was doing? Ron asked if that is what she thinks we need to do and she said yes. When Ron got home from the temple, he said that he felt like we needed to move forward with the adoption. We were not sure if that meant that we needed to go to court or what we needed to do, but we felt like we needed to keep moving forward in faith. I agreed. We listened to conference and were more confident in our decision. I absolutely loved conference. The spirit was very strong and I received so much personal revelation.  Ron and I had talked about how up to this point, things had been difficult, but the things the spirit has guided us to do have been relatively easy to follow. Ron was telling me that going to court with somebody is what he feared the Spirit would guide us to do and now we were being guided to move forward in that direction. We still were not sure if we would even be able to go to court, but we knew that is what we were willing to do if it came to it. On Sunday, Ron was kinda having a difficult time just staying optimistic about everything and felt like a dark cloud hung over him. The bishop was inspired to come over and give Ron a blessing. I'm not sure what was said in Ron's blessing because Reese started tooting up a storm (Yep, that is real life at our house) and I took her into the other room. After the blessing, the weight of everything seemed to be lifted off of his shoulders and he was able to move forward.

On Monday, we learned from our lawyer that our adoption case had now turned into a custody battle between the birth father and birth mother and there was nothing we could do. Lola would go back to P and she could get an attorney to help her get custody. The only way that we would be able to adopt Lola would be if the birth father backed off and gave his consent for us to adopt. P just got a full-time job and there was no way she could take care of Lola while trying to get her life back together. I just wanted to make sure Lola was safe and cared for and so we decided to take care of her and love her for as long as we could. I still have faith that she will be able to stay with us and be a part of our family. So now we just wait and have faith. We have done all we can do and now we learn patience and wait upon the Lord.