a Christmas to remember...

Yesterday David and Andrea got a call from their adoption agency. They drove to the hospital to meet the birth mother of their new baby girl who was born today! I can't even imagine how thrilled, excited, happy and perhaps a little scared they must be feeling. Yesterday they found out they'd been chosen as the parents of this baby...and today they are holding her!!!


(I stole this picture from their blog...isn't she beautiful?!)

While we were waiting for news of the birth of this baby, we remembered that on the Feast of the Annunciation we spiritually adopted unborn babies who were in danger of abortion. We have been praying for them (and their birth mothers) for the last nine months so when we heard that the mother had considered abortion we were so thankful that, perhaps partly because of our prayers, she was open to the grace she needed to bear and deliver this baby; and now that baby we were praying for is (almost*) a part of our family! Merry Christmas, David and Andrea!!!

*There is a short waiting period before the final paperwork is signed, so please pray that everything goes through so that David and Andrea can keep Eliza, for whom they've been praying since they were married four years ago.