| Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| Adoption Updates |
Okay, now that I'm done with the trip, here are some quick adoption updates.
You know those papers everyone has pictures of signing after meeting the kids and before coming home... Well, somehow ours didn't get done. We didn't know anything about them. We've never done this before. I think all of the fiasco of the car breaking down, getting to the airport on time, etc. caused our coordinator to forget those little items of business. Therefore, we were the first to do those papers in the good ole USA. What does that do to us? Basically, it puts us back 2 weeks. Our paperwork was just filed this week instead of 2 weeks ago.
Next, we have been frantically doing court paperwork. Because of the switch in regions, we had tons of new paperwork to do for the court. Our agent said that we went from the region with the lightest paperwork to one of the regions with the most. We have been calling everyone in Oklahoma asking for their John Henry on documents. We have gone to a psychologist, received testing, paid $440, and left with a clean bill of mental health. (I guess we pulled one over on them! :-) ) Today I picked up the last of the documents, took them to the Secretary of State, and paid another $290 for apostilling. Then I proceeded to Kinkos to make copies, FedEx them overnight to our agent, and spent another $50. Boy, am I glad we're made of money!! Ha!
Lastly on the adoption front, we found out some disappointing news. After hurrying around to get all of this paperwork done trying to get it ready to be carried into region quickly, we found out that court is filling up rapidly in our region. Apparently there's a run on the court. Rumor has it that it is already booked through July. With our paperwork just starting this week, that means we may be looking at August or later for a court date! That news was rather disheartening, to say the least. I am praying, literally, for a miracle from God! We were told it would be a month to two months between trips. Now we are looking at 3-4 months at least. That means our kids will have a birthday and will go through the summer without a home. That really stinks!! I know that God has all things in His hand and His timing is always perfect. I just hope the time passes quickly. |
posted by 6blessings @ 8:22 PM  |
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That is not good news. Sorry to hear.
Praying for a miracle with you.
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I am so sorry about the delay. You really will be surprised as to how quickly time will fly.
I too am praying for a miracle for you guys!
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Oh that stinks. Hopefully some little opening on the judge's roster will appear that you can slip into.
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Kim,
I am praying that your court date comes soon too.
I also really enjoyed your trip story. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Sandy
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It must be so much harder to wait after you have met your children. I hope it goes by fast for you guys. We are expecting a 3 month wait between trips too.
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That is not good news. Sorry to hear.
Praying for a miracle with you.