Dinner With Birth Mom

Sorry this is like 9.5 weeks after the fact!!  I actually tried several times to sit and type this out, but there never seemed to be the moments i would need to do it.  So hopefully piece by piece I can tell you all what happened, and have it archived for our memories:)

So on Monday August 16th, we headed out for Utah.  We left Hudson with Josh's parents, and took a quick last picture of the family of 3:)  Naturally on the way to Utah my period started!  Of course that was after finding out we had to be at dinner about 2 hours earlier than we had thought...So that meant no stopping.  Honestly, it just made me laugh!

We made it with just enough time to throw our bags in our hotel room and head to the restaurant.  Praise the Lord I had a wonderful mentor who has done this many times before me....She kept telling me to remember my purpose in going was to love on a mama and her baby, and if I came home with the baby, I had even more reason to celebrate.  Go with open hands and let the Lord move.  So on the way to dinner Josh and I prayed that if this was the Lord's will for this child, our family, and the mama that she would have a complete peace with her decision.  And if it wasn't what the Lord had for all of us that it just would be awkward, or not peaceful.  We prayed that the Lord would make it so clear.

So we got seated and the mama was in the restroom with her little 15 month old son, so we were seated with the ladies from the agency.  They kinda briefed us a little and then out came the mama and her boy.  We stood and hugged her and introduced ourselves.  I had the most amazing peace.  I mean what an awkward situation, and I felt completely calm.  We just started talking with her and she started to relax.  We were also playing with her little boy too:)  He was a cutie, and he was a handful:)  She asked us if we had thought of any names, and Josh had told her we had thought of the name Boaz.  She was like What????  We had previously picked the name Malachi too...So I piped in that we also liked the name Malachi...and she got REALLY excited and said she had wanted to name her son that but that her husband wouldn't let her, and that her daughters name was MaKyla....and it sounds similar to that too.  So we just loved all that, and on the spot changed it to Malachi, which we changed the spelling to Malakai, so he could go by Kai (Ky) also.  Anyway, before you know it, we were laughing and talking and 2 hours went by before we even realized it.  At the end, she took her son to the bathroom again, and the ladies from the agency told us that they hadn't really seen her be so free and open, and laughing etc...They said this was an amazing match!  And they could tell she was at rest and happy with her choice.

So she came back to the table and the ladies from the agency talked to all of us and told Josh and I that they would talk to the mama and call us for the plan for the morning.  So we went outside and got pictures taken together, and then left.  Josh and I decided to backtrack to our hotel and then to drive the route from the hotel to the hospital so we would know it well for the morning.  While driving to the hospital the adoption agent called us and said that the mama wanted me to come into the surgery with her in the morning!!!!  I was ecstatic!  I never dreamed I would get to be AT the birth!  We were so happy!!!

So we went back to our hotel and tried to get some sleep somehow...that was after talking about how to spell the name Malakai for like an hour.  :)

Anyway, hopefully soon I can tell about the birth, and the hospital stay!!