Not
sure who is even reading or following this journey any more. I think writing things down is probably
therapeutic for me so I continue to do it even if no one is reading it! :) We have waited three more months … three
months of nothing. No news, no updates,
no court date in sight. Inquiries to the
other side of the world have been responded with, “nothing yet.” It has
now been 20 months since our paperwork got to Ghana. 20 months of absolutely no progress.
Chris
and I have had some hard decisions to make.
We have had to evaluate, and re-evaluate our entrance into this process
and looking to the things that we knew we had clarity on when starting to adopt
again. Entering this process this time
around was much different than when we adopted Kylie. We have felt equipped to bring home a little
bit older child and have known that our deepest desire is to bring another
child into our family with the same ethnic background as Kylie. We really had
our first time of not knowing what to do last August. I think God was starting to work on us to
think about a different path, but at that time we just didn’t know for sure if
changing was the right thing. I talked
about it in my blog post, The Curve Ball -
http://www.followinghimonthejourney.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-curve-ball.html. Now, as another
season of baseball is upon us, and we are still no further along than we were
last August ... we have made the decision to change to domestic adoption. This means updating our home study, redoing
the paperwork with a new agency and talking through the changes of this with
our kids. Another test in the unknown
... more moments of are we too old? Will
anyone even pick us? Can we go back to
the baby stage? This process may be more
familiar to us since we have done it before, but that doesn’t mean it is less treacherous. All types of adoption have their challenges
and all are a reminder that there are kids that need homes and that is the
number one thing God has been asking of us all along: To be a family for a child. So we are doing paperwork again, more forms,
copies and more copies, notarizing ‘stuff’ and having another new worker enter
our home and lives. When we had our home
visit recently we were asked by the worker if we have had any major
circumstances that have impacted us since our last home study. The biggest thing we can say is … deeper
relationship with Christ and a trust in knowing that He is in complete control. Thanks for following us on this crazy
journey!!
