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and I sooooo want to tell you..

One month ago today I posted a plea, asking for help in finding a family for our son.

The truth is, when I sat down that morning, I had no idea what I was going to blog about.  We had decided on disruption months before, but taking any actual steps forward had been so agonizingly painful that we had just been unable.

I sat down to write, and I just told you our story.  I put it all out there.  I wanted to be honest.  I didn’t want people to contact us with interest, to have to share the painful details again and again, to have them draw back in horror, to keep reliving our trauma.  If I was straightforward right from the start, you knew whether this was something you could handle or not.

I hit publish.

People linked.  And linked.  And linked.  And suddenly, my little blog that used to get 200 hits on a good day, was well over 200 hits.  And I thought.. this might work.  This really.could.work!

And I reached out.  For weeks, I spent whole days searching the internet for people I didn’t know, blogs I hadn’t read, sites I didn’t know about, asking anyone and everyone:  Please, read our story.  Please, pray for us.  Please, consider posting the link.

And you did.  I cannot express to you how grateful I am.  Your support sustained me.  Your emails inspired me.  You gave me hope.  (Stop me before I break into the chorus of You are the wind beneath my wings...)

But seriously.  Y’all even battled the stalkers for me.  That is BIG.

As of this morning, that post has had 23,342 hits.

We think we have the right family for our son.  (We are just waiting to see their homestudy, to make sure they are who they say they are.  Because, yo, this is the internet age, and there are all kinds of crazies out there.  But if everything checks out… W.O.W.)   To respect their privacy, I can’t tell you anything about them.  Except that I am thrilled.  Just totally thrilled.  I talked to the Mom for a long time one day, and I loved her.  Because they have the experience, the compassion, the smarts, the WIT, the tenacity, the patience, the faith.. everything we were looking for, and more.  It was like God looked down, designed exactly the right family, and sent them to us.

(Can’t you hear God?  “Well, DUH.  That’s what you ASKED me to do, isn’t it?”)

(Is it sacrilegious to imagine God saying “Well, DUH?”  Because if it is, I take it back.  But I do imagine that he rolled his eyes and shook his head and heaved a big exhausted sigh at me.  Again.)

If things check out, I will take down the Family Needed post.  I will take down the picture in the sidebar.  I will have CHASK take down his story (his name is not really Daniel, for those of you that wondered.)

I really can not thank you all enough.

Thank you.

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