7months to tell you the truth when we first started this adoption I thought by the time we got to 7 months we would already have him home. After looking at other family's blogs and seeing that they had their child home in 7 months. But I have learned that adoption is not ever the same for anyone. For one family it could go real fast, for another it could take years. Different obstacles can get in the way, they are able to be overcome but it can slow you down. For some it could be the homestudy or USCIS or FBI fingerprints For another vacations taken by people in your Childs country,it could be something needed for the dossier or court and for another it could be a volcano eruption.You just don't ever know.But you know who does know? God because he is the one who has already gone before you and pathed the way, there may be bumps, hills or even mountains but if you just keep on the path you will get there. With each one of those bumps hills or mountains you will learn something, you will grow,your faith will increase. Each one is put there for a reason. you may never know what that reason is but it doesn't matter God does.
So as I type this and try to understand I realize I don't need to understand I just need to trust. I know the Lord told us to do this, I know Josiah is our son, I'm not gong to let any bump, hill or mountain get in my way! Yes we still need money,no we don't have many people that seem like they care, yes there is nothing we can do about the committee saying no more adoptions in 2010,there is nothing we can do about the one lady we need being sick for two weeks. There is nothing we can do is that true? No we can pray and God can move mountains RIGHT!!
Nicholas and Sasha ! If you read back in my blog you will see that I posted pictures of them saying they needed a family to love them.I'm so happy they both have found a family.
November 3rd will be Josiah's 3rd birthday we have set up a chip in for Happy birthday gifts for him. If you think of it like this if you are invited to a birthday party you bring a gift right you spend $10 maybe $20 bucks on some little toy or out fit you hope the child will enjoy, as you watch them open their gifts to see if they enjoy yours. usually they like the box and wrapping better then the gift. Think of the gift you would be giving to Josiah with this $10 or $20 in the form of money donated to bring him home. You would be contributing to his home coming the best gift ever! brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents and a mommy and a daddy. Never to go with out a loving touch, a sweet hug and kiss, a heart felt I love you. Never to go to bed crying or hungry, the GIFT OF LIFE!. I know that when people think about donating they think of all the reasons they can't, they think they need to donate some big amount, when really if we just had all the people that love and care about us donate what they spend on a birthday gift, a baby shower or wedding gift. It would all add up and we would get there together. So far this adoption has cost us $15,000 most of it was paid for by us by the Grace and Glory of God. About $600 of it was donations thank you to the people that have donated. We still have at least $15,000 to go. . So we still need your help. I am not worried I know that God will provide just as he has the first $15,000 but how wonderful to be able to say our family and friends helped to bring our baby home.WHAT A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY GIFT!
They had a Conference yesterday in Josiah's city we were told that due to the City Government policy the goal of the Committee is not to exceed the number of adoptions that took place last year, and by the end of 2010 they need to present statistic figures that would be less than those from 2009.it is because of the recent US adoptive parent abuse cases, that the Governor wants to reduce the number of adoptions, and his goal is to reduce the number by 60% of the number of adoptions from 2009)
we were told "Don't worry as your child has no alternative but to be adopted. Just wait! It sounds as if you could still get a first trip scheduled by the end of the year, but not court. It doesn't sound like they are officially stopping registrations and first trips for this year, but they are definitely trying to slow them down. I'll keep you updated on what we find out.
So no court until next year, we will just wait each day for that email telling us our date to go meet him. I don't like this at all, I don't like not knowing, being in limbo every day wondering if it will be the day we get our date. this is not fun not at all.!! I am not one bit surprised, I knew going into this adoption that nothing is set in stone, that things happen and you can't plan on anything going the way you want it to or the way it did for someone else. I know it's in Gods hands his timing but it doesn't make it easy. Mike wrote this to me and it sorta just sums it all up "God wouldn't have brought us this far to only close the door ... and if they do close them for the rest of the year then there is more to Gods plan then we can see"
No news yet on our date but I have decided to make our blog private so that I can talk more freely about what country Josiah is in, about his orphanage or what ever else I feel I need to vent about. without the worry that it will end up being seen by the wrong eyes and jeopardize our adoption. So if you would like to keep fallowing our journey. please email me at katrina9@clear.net so I can send you an invite. You will need to tell me how I know you. I will be making the blog private next Monday Oct 4th.
We were told that the Committee had not had time yet to read our dossiers, because of vacations there are too many dossiers left unregistered from the registration of August 23, the date our Dossier was submitted .They told us not to expect a date until Oct 1st at the earliest. So we wait yet another week, we wait.
I am surprisingly calm about this I'm not really upset or sad. Maybe I have just gotten use to these set backs or maybe I realize it is all in Gods perfect time. I hate not knowing our date and not being able to plan but at least I can relax until next Friday when I will then be hitting the Send/Recv button on my emails 100 times a minute in hopes for that email telling me our date. For now I will rest, relax and try to put it out of my mind. Another thing I was thinking was how wonderful it is that there are so many dossiers that still need to be registered, because that means there are that many more kids that will soon be home with a family Thank you Lord!
I am adding this little girl to the list for this week because every time I see her picture it makes me smile.I dont know all of her info, she is an older child already 5. she needs a family to bring out that spark I can see in her just from this picture.I found out she is not available for adoption only for domestic foster care or guardianship. so we can pray that someone from her country goes in and saves her.
Catherine P. Date of Birth: March 2005 Gender: Female Character: calm, sociable
Birthdate: February 2007
Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue
Hair: BlondeCharacter: Sociable
This little teddy bear was born 2/2007. He was born at 38 weeks with a strong Apgar score. He does have a heart condition and will need to be seen by a cardiologist once home, but he is doing very well.
Seraphima L.
Date of Birth: November 2008
Gender: Female
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark
Nature: Calm
No date today we got word that the lady that was on vacation that gives out the dates wants time to look over our Dossier a little before she gives the date. she told our facilitator to call back Friday. So lets all pray that she gives us a date on Friday and she does not ask for anything more. If anything at all I have learned thru this adoption that it is all in Gods time, no matter how much I try to plan or how much I try to make things happen it just does not work because it is in his time not mine!
OK so no date today we will try for tomorrow . why does it feel like time is in slow motion when you are waiting for something! like a kid waiting for christmas morning. Guess that makes it exciting.
The lady that gives out the dates for our meeting with the committee to go see Josiah our 1st trip, is back from vacation tomorrow. I'm trying not to get too excited about getting our date, she may not get a chance to get it to us by tomorrow. Oh how I pray she does. I'm just tired of waiting, I want our date, I want to book our flights, I want to go see our boy. I will update as soon as we have news.
