Just as both Rebekah and I were preparing ourselves for the possibility of our journey entering a long waiting stage during our matching, we get news we’d not expected!

First, I’ll recap what’s happened in the last few weeks. We had to wait for our Home Study report to be completed so we could send that off to Nightlight. We recieved the report in early December and sent that off to Nightlight. We also got confirmation that Rebekah’s doctor sent over her letter in the format that Nightlight needed. Once those things were completed, we only had to have one more conversation with Nightlight to finalize our preferences for our adoption.

Rebekah completed the final conversation with Nightlight on Friday, December 18. During this conversation, Rebekah was told that matching could take as long as 4 months – so we were prepared to wait a while for a match. Now, on to the good news – we got an email late on Monday, December 21 that a family had chosen us a potential match to adopt their embryos. This took us both by surprise as it took about 3 days to be matched when we were expecting it to take up to 4 months. This was definitely an answered prayer!

So, what’s next? Our adoption agency is closed until tomorrow (Jan. 4) for the Christmas holiday, so we weren’t able to do much other than review the genetic family’s profile and return the confidentiality agreement. Once the Nightlight staff is back in the office, we’ll hope to continue moving forward with this potential match. Rebekah’s doctor has some information to review and begin working with Rebekah to possibly schedule a mock transfer as a test run for a possible embryo transfer.

We’d ask for your prayers in the upcoming weeks as we seek the Lord’s guidance and His Will in this decision. We’re very excited at the possibilities of being parents in 2010 and to quote my mother-in-law, “we’re praying for a blizzard” (since the program with Nightlight is called the “Snowflakes” program).

Additionally, if you would feel so led to donate to our adoption fund to help cover some of our agency or medical expenses, please visit the “Donate” page of the blog. The link is on the upper right of the homepage. Thank you so much for your support and prayer – the way this process has unfolded could only have done so by the Lord’s hands, and through the prayers of our friends and family.