Here is a quick update on where we are at. Our paperwork has been with the Haitian Government in the IBESR department since the beginning of February 2014. This is the phase where they will issue us an official referral of our child.....it also is one of the longest steps in the adoption process. We were told that we should expect to be in this phase with relatively no news or updates for 6-8 months. Of course we are praying daily for less than the expected time.....we also are being told to be flexible with our expectations as there are many cases where families get stuck in this step of the process for periods much longer than 8 months, ugh, I try not to let my mind go there.
For about a two month period we were being told there was basically no activity in the IBESR with regards to issuing referrals.....that was discouraging news to hear. However the past few weeks our hopes have once again been lifted as we are hearing that the IBESR is now starting to issue referrals again. Literally every day I wake up I pray and hope and pray again that today will be the day we receive a phone call or an email telling us our referral has been issued. Our adoption agency that would be making this call/email to us is on the East Coast- 3 hours ahead of us. A crazy thing adoptive parents do (me) is wake up with anticipation every morning and the first thing I do before even getting out of bed is do a quick scan of my email to see if there is anything new in my inbox from American World Adoption (our agency). It's crazy, I know, it just is a part of this. And every night I pray over our future child in hopes that she knows she is loved and wanted and has a family and that she is being cared for and having all her needs met. In the meantime I try to do things that I think will be helpful for her when she gets home, like getting her room all set up for her and researching programs within the school system to help her transition home. Claire likes to pick out toys for her that we set aside just for her to play with when she finally comes home.
So time keeps creeping by. It is funny, I find myself thinking about how fast the year has gone by and amazed that my calendar already says June....and at the same time I think to myself how time seems to be crawling by and that I just wish the time would get here for our child to come home.
We are still holding on to our original goal of hoping our child would be home by Christmas of this year. The chances of that goal being met are starting to look slimmer and slimmer, but I have strong faith that God has worked out the timing perfectly and that she will come home in HIS perfect timing. In the meantime I put all my trust in Him to care for her as well as all my trust in the creche and each nanny, teacher, and nurse who is caring for her now.
