Wow! Told you the posts would be few and far between! We are now coming up on the end of 6 months of waiting for our referral. We called our family coordinator to see if there has been any behind the scenes progress she could tell us about. She told us that we should expect to hear something between now and June. That at least shortens our possible (originally 6-12 months) referral wait time by a couple months! Yeah! The reality of it though is that we will be traveling to meet our child sometime in April, May, or June! That seems so soon all of a sudden. My biggest worry isn't about all the logistics of traveling that far or any of the stuff on that end. My biggest worry is just organizing and planning what the other three kiddos will be doing. I know they will be fine though.
A few days after we called our coordinator, she sent us specific document information that needs to be filled out prior to our first trip - Krasnoyarsk Regional Documents - aka "court dossier". Must mean we are actually getting close to referral! Those documents are a little overwhelming just as they were when we were putting together the first dossier. There are certain documents we can start working on now but most of it can't be done until we get the actual referral because the validity of them is 3 months and we don't want them to expire too soon. But it's very complicated because this needs to be done before this and that can't be done before that and doctors need to sign off on certain things in a certain way...Please pray for this paperwork to go smoothly! Any errors on our end could slow down the entire process. :(
The reality of the fact that our child is not just on paper anymore and based on the age we are requesting he/she has most definitely been born is really hitting us. OUR child is having undesireable experiences somewhere beyond our control. That's hard to think about. But we have to remember that God has a plan for our child's life! Just one of those times where we really have to give God time to work His plan!
Please just continue to pray for loving hands around our child!
Always praying for you guys and that new little one of yours (and the current care takers). You are so special to be able to do this! We are here if you need anything! We love you guys :)
ReplyDeleteYOUR child is also GOD's child and He loves this baby so much that He has chosen this exact baby for your family, even as you are waiting to see who this child is. Prayers coming your way!!
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