Friday has come and gone. . . (plus updates)

Friday has come and gone and there is still no contract in place.  Please pray for us right now.  I am freaking out inside and worried about our match with our genetic family not going through.  A minor misunderstanding has escalated a bit and while we have conceeded the point of disagreement, it has caused our genetic family to have some hesitation about us.  This weekend we find ourselves at a critical point in our adoption journey.  The Snowflakes coordinator (and Dan and I) are waiting to hear from the genetic family about their final decision on the contract and if they wish to move forward with signing the embryo donation agreement.  Please pray that our genetic family will realize that we are trustworthy and would do an amazing job raising their embryos.  Please pray that we would experience peace in this difficult period of waiting.  It is hard not to have control over this situation.  I don't know what else to say right now.  I feel really discouraged, anxious, sad. . . you get the picture.

Lord, give me hope and encouragement during this hard time.

Update (Monday 3/22) - No word from Snowflakes today.  I can't take much more of this.  I am going to write a letter to our donor family to be passed on to them through our Snowflakes coordinator.  Time to plead our case.

Update (Tuesday 3/23) - Our Snowflakes coordinator loved our letter to our donor family and sent it off to them (via email) this morning.  I am praying that we get a response tomorrow (Wed.)!  
 
Update (Wednesday 3/24) - No news today.  Bummer. 

Update (Thursday 3/25) - No news again today.  Our Snowflakes coordinator doesn't work on Fridays so the earliest we will hear from our donor family is Saturday. I am having a hard time focusing at work.  I can tell my body is really feeling the stress of this situation.  I spent various moments in prayer at work today.  My prayers are basically two-fold:  asking God for the desire of my heart and submitting my will to God's.  I don't understand the long silence on the part of our donor family.  If they have changed their mind they should just tell us.  We have said yes to everything they wanted in the contract.  They have agreed to the changes that we wanted in the contract.  I am praying that God works in their hearts to move towards a final decision so we can either rejoice or start over.  

Update (Saturday 3/27) - I called our Snowflakes coordinator today.  She confirmed that our donor family has not contacted her since the 18th.  At this point our coordinator recommended that we wait until April 1st to see if they contact her and then at that time if they haven't we will begin to look for another match.  I am glad we at least have a plan.