After nearly two months, I have one bit of exciting news to share. We found out on Friday that DJ has been told that we are going to be adopting her and that she was thrilled. That is all we know but are so happy that she knows that we love her and are waiting for her to come home. Still no word on whether or not she has received our letters and photo album.
Unfortunately, it has been nearly two months since my last post and I am sad to say that nothing else has changed to move us closer to the adoption. After my last post, I was told we weren’t allowed to have any communication with DJ. That was very painful to hear because we really believed that once we were approved that we would be allowed to communicate with her. On another sad note, we still have not received any of the paperwork necessary to begin the visa paperwork on this end yet. Not sure what the hold up is or when it might arrive.
It is very frustrating to wait so long. They give us timelines of how long each step of the process should take and every step of the way there have been delays of many, many weeks each time without any explanation. We originally thought that DJ would be home in April and were thinking for sure by May but now we are praying for June. We know that each step of this process is in God’s hand and that He is in complete control. With that, we look forward to the day when our whole family will be together!
DJ’s birthday is coming up soon and we requested that we be able to communicate with her in some way on her birthday. Please pray with us that at a minimum we could send her an email directly and at best, we would be allowed to Skype with her.
It continues to amaze me how a little girl who has never met anyone except for me can be loved so much by so many people. We are so blessed to have been given the privilege of being her parents!
Thanks for checking in and thanks for praying with us.
