I spoke with our agency on Friday but they don't have the update from China yet. It is a process as the update has to go from the orphanage to the CCWA (China's gov't office) and then to our agency and then it has to be translated. They don't know where it is, "maybe on someone's desk somewhere"? Ugh! So we wait! This is definitely one of the downs of adoption. When you are just being a parent you forget all these headaches and heartaches.
However, I am not letting it hold me back. Sadly, there are more children out there looking for families than anyone of us wants to realize so we will be fine. With China we can just get our dossier done and then wait for a referral of a child much like we did for Oliver. The big difference is that China issues a list in the middle of the night once a month and the agencies snag the kids off of them. You have three days to make a decision and you have to hurry! So, there is no real time delay.
My devotion today talked about stress and heartache leaving you the closer you are to God and so I must let Him carry this one for me. Honestly, we are trying to proceed as if all is well. I am not out shopping for little girl things though. I cranked out all of the paperwork that arrived in the mail today in a couple of hours while Matson napped . I also found how to get our dossier packet tucked away in all the information so I emailed our agency for that. We have our first homestudy visit on Wednesday and hope to do the other two within a few weeks. My goal is to send everything to our agency ready to go to immigration on May 1st but I will be happy with May 15th. I did all our child abuse checks for our social worker so there would be no delays!!! Once we get our HS we can start applying for grants to help us pay for this adoption. We don't entirely have that all figured out yet. I am confident it will come with God's help!
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