A New Kind of Waiting

We are still here... My apologies for the big gaps in my online presence. We have been busy busy...who isn't right? Our home has been under major renovations which I will post more about but for now the topic du jour is our adoption...

We got an email Tuesday saying that although our agency has been accredited, Moldova has decided they need more documents from our agency before they can have the meeting to discuss the new requirements for US/Moldova adoptions. This is the meeting we have been waiting on since February to decide if we will proceed with Moldova as our country. Our agency currently has three families that have already been given referrals (assigned a child) in Moldova and they have no date as of yet when these families will be united with their child. So what does this all mean?

It means more waiting. And it proves to us that Moldova has thus far not had their stuff together enough to make the guidelines clear from the start. Our agency has no real idea of when this is all gonna get cleared up and for the first time they have made a suggestion for us to move on if we are ready.
Our dilemma has been do we wait or switch. At this point we have waited 8 months and have no real idea of how much longer we will wait to only then have another decision to make based off of the country requirements.

So it is with mixed emotions that we are letting our friends know that we have decided to switch countries to Russia. My heart is very sad for those kids in Moldova that are going to sit in orphanages for who knows how long because of this stuff. However we came into this wanting to adopt…we didn’t even know Moldova was an option. We were confident that the timing was right then and therefore we are proceeding with what we set out to do…add to our family. We believe this timing delay is in God’s plan and it will reveal itself at some point.

We are very excited to be moving in a forward motion again! Soon our little guy will be home.

Please begin to pray for our son. We have focused so much on this decision that I am eager to shift gears and just ask God to begin really preparing his heart and mind for what is to come. We are praying for a smooth transition for him into our family but more importantly for protection from any more detriment he could endure from being institutionalized or in a less than optimal living situation.