Today we have reached 8 months on the wait list.
I really can't believe it. We are in that window of time that I have had in my brain for the past year and a half. When we first went on the wait list it was an average 6-8 month wait, now it's more like 8-10 months. But either way, that magical number EIGHT is in both of those!
We need your prayers. This is getting really hard and really emotionally draining at times. We have received (private) information that basically boils down to DELAYS, DELAYS, DELAYS. Nothing pertaining to our particular adoption case, and I am not allowed to discuss any of it on here, but the result is the same - DELAYS, and it is affecting our adoption case as well. Several things need to come to a conclusion and be resolved before we can move forward. We are bummed, to say the least. We are frustrated and discouraged, not at anyone in particular, just at the situation. It feels like it will be 2015 before we bring our daughter home. (That is a gross exaggeration but my brain wants to be dramatic right now :-). Our agency has been wonderful and I know the Ethiopian government is working in the best interest of their children.
We are just so ready, this is the time, we are so close, WE ARE SO CLOSE and yet still seem so far away. There are so many hurdles between us and our baby girl right now. I have to just keep praying and knowing that God has got this figured out. He has already gone before us, He already knows who she is, He has had perfect plans for her from the beginning of time and for us too. Plans to give us hope and a future and not to harm us...keep repeating this over and over in your brain Summer. :-) Don't go crazy with impatience and anxiety. I know it is hard for those of you who have not been through the adoption process before to understand why this is so hard and to understand the emotions that we are going through. Just know that we are anticipating and looking forward to this baby just as much as we did our two boys. It is no different in that regard, it's just a different process to get there...and much longer I might add. In our hearts, we already have a daughter...we are ready to hold her, kiss her, rock her, tell her that we love her and bring her home. The same for our boys as well, especially Elijah. They are expecting a baby sister and are just as excited about it as we are...they are ready too.
Anyways, we really appreciate your prayers right now. That these hurdles would go away SOON, SOON, SOON and that God would continue to give us His peace and His patience and an understanding that this will all happen in His perfect timing, resulting in our being matched with the daughter that He has picked out for our family. We are definitely staying busy in the meantime plus as a result of some discussions as far back as last summer between Jason and I (and in forming new adoptive family friends), a wonderful ministry is in the works at our church that we are super excited about!!! Can't wait to share details about that soon! Please pray that the staff will get behind it with enthusiasm so that we will be able to proceed into something that we are all so passionate about!
Book recommendation...read The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns. I'm barely into it and WOW - thanks so much for this gift Julia!
Lastly, I have been following this family's blog for some time and they just brought their precious baby boy home. Enjoy this sweet, sweet homecoming video. I know that it will be our turn before we know it...in the meantime, I get so excited for other families when their turn comes.
I really can't believe it. We are in that window of time that I have had in my brain for the past year and a half. When we first went on the wait list it was an average 6-8 month wait, now it's more like 8-10 months. But either way, that magical number EIGHT is in both of those!
We need your prayers. This is getting really hard and really emotionally draining at times. We have received (private) information that basically boils down to DELAYS, DELAYS, DELAYS. Nothing pertaining to our particular adoption case, and I am not allowed to discuss any of it on here, but the result is the same - DELAYS, and it is affecting our adoption case as well. Several things need to come to a conclusion and be resolved before we can move forward. We are bummed, to say the least. We are frustrated and discouraged, not at anyone in particular, just at the situation. It feels like it will be 2015 before we bring our daughter home. (That is a gross exaggeration but my brain wants to be dramatic right now :-). Our agency has been wonderful and I know the Ethiopian government is working in the best interest of their children.
We are just so ready, this is the time, we are so close, WE ARE SO CLOSE and yet still seem so far away. There are so many hurdles between us and our baby girl right now. I have to just keep praying and knowing that God has got this figured out. He has already gone before us, He already knows who she is, He has had perfect plans for her from the beginning of time and for us too. Plans to give us hope and a future and not to harm us...keep repeating this over and over in your brain Summer. :-) Don't go crazy with impatience and anxiety. I know it is hard for those of you who have not been through the adoption process before to understand why this is so hard and to understand the emotions that we are going through. Just know that we are anticipating and looking forward to this baby just as much as we did our two boys. It is no different in that regard, it's just a different process to get there...and much longer I might add. In our hearts, we already have a daughter...we are ready to hold her, kiss her, rock her, tell her that we love her and bring her home. The same for our boys as well, especially Elijah. They are expecting a baby sister and are just as excited about it as we are...they are ready too.
Anyways, we really appreciate your prayers right now. That these hurdles would go away SOON, SOON, SOON and that God would continue to give us His peace and His patience and an understanding that this will all happen in His perfect timing, resulting in our being matched with the daughter that He has picked out for our family. We are definitely staying busy in the meantime plus as a result of some discussions as far back as last summer between Jason and I (and in forming new adoptive family friends), a wonderful ministry is in the works at our church that we are super excited about!!! Can't wait to share details about that soon! Please pray that the staff will get behind it with enthusiasm so that we will be able to proceed into something that we are all so passionate about!
Book recommendation...read The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns. I'm barely into it and WOW - thanks so much for this gift Julia!
Lastly, I have been following this family's blog for some time and they just brought their precious baby boy home. Enjoy this sweet, sweet homecoming video. I know that it will be our turn before we know it...in the meantime, I get so excited for other families when their turn comes.
3 comments:
hugs and kisses. this stinks. and that's putting in mildly. thinking about you guys during all this....
Tears and anticipation while watching the video! Praying for our little girl. Can't wait!
I know how hard it is to get caught up in delays. It's so hard not having any idea when the day will come... but it will come. Thinking about you guys.
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