Our Journey as an Adopted Family: So..How's Your Adoption Going?

This is a question that is asked at least 5-6 times a week. We love to see that people care so much about our future child! But lately, that question has created a bit of a heartache. So, what is going on? Let's catch up...

When we found Sweet T, our agency had her file. This was great! But then C*hina did some switcharoo's and Sweet T was 'lost' in the system. Our agency has fought from the beginning to get her file and has not had success. Yet. We are still clinging to that yet. We officially became LID today which means our paperwork was logged in with C*hina! Yay! That also means that the C*hina side of our agency team will look harder for Sweet T's file. We are hoping to know within 2 weeks if she is available or will become available. We waited 5 months for Peter's file to become available. Our sweet caseworker shared with me today that she, too, hears God saying, "Wait" not "Stop." She has continued to fight for us in every way that she can. She told me that she cannot wait to call us and tell us that God said "Yes!" We are all praying that it's Little Miss Sweet T. After hearing some hard news a couple of weeks ago, today was encouraging. But the two weeks also gave us time to remember that His ways are the best ways and He has this all planned out.

Some other news that was hard to take is that we do not qualify for the adoption tax credit. Something to do with tax liability and being self employed. This was a bit of a blow because that's how we were going to pay for the remainder of our adoption. I guess we should be depending on God, not the government, for our adoption funds. We did a lot of fundraising with Peter and had hoped to avoid that this time. So unless someone plans on writing us a huge check or a lot of someone's write us small checks, we will be hitting the fundraising again. We want to do this in the best way and without being annoying. :-) We also want a picture to share so you know who you are raising funds for!

Peter news...Peter recovered extremely well and extremely fast from his surgery. One week after we were home, he 'knocked' a bit to hard on a window and his fist went through. Off to the ER for stitches. Then last Saturday, he had a horrible fall. Absolutely horrible. We are praising our God that he survived. His face was not pretty afterwards but he is alive! His next surgery is scheduled for July 1st. He will be having his nose and lips corrected.Here are a few pictures. I have been horrible about taking pictures lately. I have a few on my phone that I need to get off also.