We received an email from a potential birthmother

I cannot believe how exciting this is to me, even though it might not lead anywhere. I check certain message boards regularly where potential birthmothers can post to adoptive couples, letting adoptive parents know of their situations and also telling adoptive parents what they are looking for in an adoptive couple. Adoptive parents can in turn email the potential birthmothers and see what happens. Most of these dear potential birthmothers are overwhelmed with the response they receive after making a post, and therefore are usually not able to respond back to everyone. I have emailed a number of potential birthmothers that I have found this way and have never received a response, until now. The response was something like this, she had not yet decided what she was going to do, but that she appreciated our email and when she had thought through her feelings and made a decision she would let us know. I think she must be a very thoughtful person as she took the time to respond to us, it sounded as if she was trying to email everyone that had responded to her. So as excited as it made me to receive the email, it may not lead to anything and I am okay with that. It just makes me feel like things are happening and that is good, it makes the waiting a little more easier.

I still am trying to think of some ways that we can get our name out to people here in Starkville. School started today and I hope I might be able to find some places on campus to place our cards or possibly make a flyer to put up somewhere. We are hoping to go visit another ward in our stake this month with Sister Reed, if that works out we will be able to meet more people in our stake and let them know of our desire to adopt. Also next month there is a Parenting Conference that our stake is doing, and we are planning to attend. This will count towards adoption training and it will also be a good way to let others know in our stake of our desire to adopt. Hopefully this will help things move along faster.