Ted and I will be heading to Moscow on September 9th to receive the official referral for our daughter. We are on cloud nine!!! We are so thankful and can't wait to get her in our arms.
Please continue to pray for every wall and barrier to be destroyed and that our path is clear. Still a ways to go before we bring her home but this first trip is a major first step!!
Woo hoo!!!!!
8.30.2012
8.28.2012
Delay
A little bit of bad news from Russia today. Our travel dates are delayed. The team is hopeful that we should get them by the end of the week however. And we still have the referral for our little girl. So just a little more waiting. Story of the adoption!!!
8.22.2012
Good news!
We got some good news today from Russia! Our documents were accepted and our referral for the little nine month old girl in Moscow is now official since she came off the registry today. That means we are on our way folks!!! We are all on cloud nine and could not be happier. We should get travel dates from the Department of Education (in Moscow) early next week, but we could be holding our little girl as soon as the week of September 10.
Thank you to everyone out there who called, e-mailed, visited and prayed for us and for her. Please continue to pray that the road is smooth and that all barriers are removed. We truly feel the Lord's presence over this adoption and are just praying that she is the daughter we have been praying about for the past two years.
For all those DeSoto girls who read this, I have been singing in my head the blessing we would sing on Sundays before lunch: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . . ." Woo hoo!!!!!
Thank you to everyone out there who called, e-mailed, visited and prayed for us and for her. Please continue to pray that the road is smooth and that all barriers are removed. We truly feel the Lord's presence over this adoption and are just praying that she is the daughter we have been praying about for the past two years.
For all those DeSoto girls who read this, I have been singing in my head the blessing we would sing on Sundays before lunch: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . . ." Woo hoo!!!!!
8.13.2012
Glasses
My baby got glasses. Still the cutest boy on the block. Really reminds me of his daddy even more!
8.06.2012
August 22
Our little angel (or the one we are praying is our little angel) rolls off the Russian-only registry on August 22nd. We are praying that no Russians step in and express interest in her so we can travel over to Moscow and meet her sometime after Labor Day. Everything is going so smoothly ever since we switched that I am waiting for something terrible to happen. Is that bad? I think that I am trying to guard my heart, but so much of me wants this little girl to be ours. Please pray that there are no barriers and that things continue on this course. God has definitely had His hand all over this path and I am so thankful!
I don't know much more about our little angel. As I may or may not have discussed on here, another one of the differences in going with Moscow is that the referral is "blind." That means that we travel over to Russia without any real information or a picture. Once we get there and meet her, we get her entire medical file (as well as any other information they may have on her such as information about her birth parents, circumstances of her abandonment, etc.) At first this whole blind referral was a little scary to me, but I have so much peace and so much less anxiety than I had before that it does not bother me at all anymore. I feel confident that this agency would not refer a child that we could not handle. They have a Russian pediatrician in Moscow who refers the children from them - a woman who has been in the orphanages and has been evaluating these children since the day they came into the orphanage. They have not had a referral rejected from this pediatrician in over 3 years. Pretty good in the adoption world.
So that is where we starnd right now. On August 22, our Russian adoption team will put in a DOE for her on our behalf, telling the Russian government of our intent to adopt her. At that point, we will get our travel dates shortly thereafter - usually around 2-3 weeks afterwards. I am thankful that I have so much stuff going on in these next 16 days - picking up Ward from camp tomorrow, back-to-school get-togethers, haircuts, doctor's appointments, and school starting on the 14th (1st grade and 2nd grade!), just to name a few. I will post if I hear anything else! Keep us in your prayers!
I don't know much more about our little angel. As I may or may not have discussed on here, another one of the differences in going with Moscow is that the referral is "blind." That means that we travel over to Russia without any real information or a picture. Once we get there and meet her, we get her entire medical file (as well as any other information they may have on her such as information about her birth parents, circumstances of her abandonment, etc.) At first this whole blind referral was a little scary to me, but I have so much peace and so much less anxiety than I had before that it does not bother me at all anymore. I feel confident that this agency would not refer a child that we could not handle. They have a Russian pediatrician in Moscow who refers the children from them - a woman who has been in the orphanages and has been evaluating these children since the day they came into the orphanage. They have not had a referral rejected from this pediatrician in over 3 years. Pretty good in the adoption world.
So that is where we starnd right now. On August 22, our Russian adoption team will put in a DOE for her on our behalf, telling the Russian government of our intent to adopt her. At that point, we will get our travel dates shortly thereafter - usually around 2-3 weeks afterwards. I am thankful that I have so much stuff going on in these next 16 days - picking up Ward from camp tomorrow, back-to-school get-togethers, haircuts, doctor's appointments, and school starting on the 14th (1st grade and 2nd grade!), just to name a few. I will post if I hear anything else! Keep us in your prayers!
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