Adoption Update =)

September 30, 2007

Well, we are officially starting our adoption process. As many of you know last November we decided to adopt and have had to wait ever since because China's laws require that BOTH parents have to be 30 before the dossier can be logged in. The dossier is ALL the paperwork that has to be filled out and notorized from the US government. etc. etc. I felt certain that we would adopt from China, my heart has been there and maybe it still is (one day!)
HOWEVER.....God has other plans for us. I know that this is going to sound kind of bad but when I would look at the pictures of the children from those websites, I tend to overlook the boys. I don't do it intentionally I love ALL CHILDREN and am very close to a lot of the little boys that I watch. I just figured we would adopt a little girl and since I have a daughter already it just seems natural, and I always wanted girls. Well, I saw a little BOY (407-08) on a website called rainbowkids.com (it is an adoption website that has waiting children from ALL over the world. They are available for adoption, mostly because they are considered "special needs".
That being said the little boy was 22 months old and that was his special need...He was considered TOO OLD to be adopted. =( First his little face just melted my heart, and then I realized that his birthday was on the same day that I felt God planted in my heart to adopt, just a years difference he was born in 2005 and not 2006. Well I knew the chances of us being able to adopt him were SLIM. (AND WE'RE NOT ABLE TO. LUCKILY I THINK HE'S SINCE FOUND HIS FOREVER FAMILY-AS HE'S NO LONGER ON THE LIST!) In order to request a child off of the waiting list you have to have your HOMESTUDY completed, and we DON'T because we've been WAITING, because they are only good for a year. Of course I prayed about it anyway and called the adoption agency right away, and found out he is from VIETNAM.
Before I knew that he wasn't available anymore I found a local agency and they were having an orientation meeting the very next night. So I attended, Jamie was on call and couldn't change his schedule on such short notice. I brought an application home and Jamie and I decided to fill it out and start the process for adoption from VIETNAM.
I think God showed us that little boy for one of two reasons. I think it was to give us a nudge to go on and start the process in Vietnam (or Korea-that is our second option) instead of waiting for China, OR to open up our hearts to a little boy OR both!
The application is filled out and will be in the mail tomorrow October 1, 2007. Then I will officially be PAPER PREGNANT!! We are EXCITED, but are very SCARED and NERVOUS! The adoption process is VERY long, VERY emotional,and VERY expensive! We are exhausting ALL areas that we can to come up with the MONEY, luckily it is paid for over the whole adoption process and not in one lump sum. We will be having some fundraisers, along with some odd and end jobs to help us along the way.
PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS!

Psalm 32:3, "I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will consel you and watch over you."
Jer 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."