Hello blog fans. It has been a minute since I posted an update! I can assure you this was not due to it being boring around here! We have had quite the game changer.
I will try to complete this post without crying… but it’s not looking good because I am already tearing up. Geez I’m becoming a softy in my old age.
In my last blog post I asked for help in finding our family’s missing piece, 104 days later God sent her through Andrew and Bethany’s front door. Let me back way up and start from the beginning. What I didn’t tell you before: when I wrote my previous post Andrew and Bethany had just experienced the heartbreak of a failed match with a potential birth mom. Basically she was unsure from the beginning, kept going back and forth, and in the end decided to parent her baby. As much as our family tried to keep our chin up, we were a little bit heartbroken. We still felt so strongly there was a baby out there for Andrew and Bethany, but at the time we were wondering when we were ever going to find them.
Just before they got the call that a birth mom wanted to meet with them, Andrew and Bethany had started the process of becoming foster parents. When they found out they had a potential match they stopped the fostering process.
It worked out that we had a family vacation scheduled shortly after the failed match with the birth mom. Andrew and Bethany decided after we got home they would go ahead with being licensed foster parents.
They became licensed foster parents on June 26, baby Gigi (not allowed to use her real name on social media yet) was born on June 30th, and was handed over to the parents I believe God hand selected for her on July 2nd.
Landon is positively smitten with her. He loves to babysit. He is rocking this big brother thing just like he does everything else.She will lay beside him while he gets suctioned and never move. They are the perfect pair.
When everything fell through in March, our family kept saying “If this adoption wasn’t meant to be, then why did we have to go through all of that?” If that failed match would have never happened, Andrew and Bethany would have became foster parents months before Gigi was ever born, and would have most likely already had received other placements. God knew. He knew that 104 days later His promise would come right through their front door. Oh boy I am failing miserably at that whole no cry thing.
To top it off, Gigi arrived while several members of our extended family were in town for the weekend. I don’t think she was put down for days. From the moment she came through the door you could just feel it. She was the missing piece. All of a sudden every step of this adoption journey made sense. It was all lining up to bring her here. God is quite the miracle worker isn’t He?
We still have a long journey ahead before she can officially become “a Johnson”, but we know with God we will get there. He has had our family in the palm of His hand from day 1. Our family would like to say thank you to all that have been praying along side us for this precious baby girl. I know beyond a shadow of doubt God has His hand on her.
Someday I will be able to post her face, but until then here are some pictures showing how much joy our family has known these last 4 months thanks to our sweet girl.
Livkng, laughing, and loving,
LeeAnna
Living, Laughing, & Loving with Landon 