remember that time when our house sold in a day? that was cool.

I meant to post this on March 31, but spring break. So let's just pretend I did...

On January 21, 2012, I posted a blog about our home-selling and adoption-ing plans. In it, I wrote:

So next step, get this house on the market next month. Then, sell it and find another house and buy that one and move. And then get underway with adoption plans.

Please pray for us. In my ideal world, we'll get an acceptable offer the first week our house is on the market and have time before closing to find the perfect-for-us home to buy so that the whole process will be as brief and painless as possible and we can move full speed ahead with the adoption plans. I know that's not the most likely scenario in the current housing market, so you can either pray that everything will go according to my ideal scenario or that God will sustain us through the different scenario He has in store.

But then on January 28, 2012, we found out about Zoe. We agreed to pray. We expected to say no. Nothing about it made sense in our plans: the timing, the uncertainty of her health, anything else. One day after we were contacted about Zoe, I told my friend Heather, "We know this just wouldn't be the right move for us."

But God took our plans of saying no and gave us our yes instead.

the first picture we have of her

Adding another child to the mix, especially one whose health and future had a lot of unknowns, made us even more hopeful about getting our house on the market and moving in a short window of time. All the unplanned adoption stuff - like fast-tracking a home study and all that jazz - meant we didn't get the house on the market in February like we had hoped.

I went on the market on the night of March 30th. And then...