Things are never easy with international adoption! We found out on Friday that a list was released from MOE (Ministry of Education-agency in Russia that handles adoption) that listed Home Study agencies that they would NOT except anymore. Of course our agency was on there...a wonderful agency! This all means that our home study (huge document that took about 5 months to complete and lots of money) has to be redone by another agency! We were all hoping this list was bogus, but I just found out that it is very real. Our Adoption agency has been working on finding us a home study agency that would be willing to basically print out our original home study on their letterhead. We have to just sit, wait and pray that this works out quickly. I have no idea what this will do to our time line. Hopefully it won't prolong us getting our referral. When these setbacks happen, I try to analyze everything. Is this God's way of seeing if we truly want this and are willing to persevere or is adoption not His plan for us??? I have to try to keep the faith in all of this. When I think about not moving forward and giving up, I feel so utterly sad! Hopefully this is just a blip on the screen and when we finally get our baby girl home, we won't even remember this!
P.S. In case I do forget and try to start another adoption, someone please stop me!!!!
3 comments:
Oh Jeanette I'm so sorry! I was hoping this wasn't a real list, it has SO many agencies on it that are well respected, it doesn't make sense.
I hope you're able to find another agency quickly that is willing to do the home study on their letterhead. Let us know what happens!
Hang in there, you have this and much more in you.
I'm so sorry, Jeanette. I can only imagine how frustrated you must feel. You have put so much of yourself into the adoption already; just hang in there. You and Brad hug each other for us! We are rooting for you guys!!
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