We're getting closer...yesterday we received the coveted document in the mail that will allow our daughter entry in the US. Woo hoo!
Today we also got back a few more of the documents we need. The 8-doctor nightmare document came back today. We had to have our CPA do one of our documents over again (for the 4th time) and it he did it in one afternoon--and with a smile (at least it sounded like he was smiling over the phone). He rocks!
Pray for our pediatrician as he is in the midst of crafting a letter that will hopefully get our 10-day waiting period waived since our daughter is special needs. He asked me to compose it, so I did, but now he will look it over and put in his two cents. Pray that the end result is exactly what we need it to say and we don't have to go round and round over it. I've had enough of that lately. I don't want to do it again.
Tonight our friend Alicia found me while at Awana and had a brand new baby gate in her hand. She had heard that we needed one for the top of our stairs and "just happened" to have one laying around that has never even been unwrapped! Hmmm....I'm not sure that I believe her that it was laying around her house, but nevertheless, I am so grateful for her generosity. Thank you Alicia, Joey and the crew!
II Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
We traveled to a place that is about 14 degrees (on a good day) so that we could pick up our daughter. Were we crazy? Nope--we just have a heart that is open to following wherever God leads us to adopt.
If you've arrived at our blog because you are adopting from Murmansk, Russia and you want to learn more...you can either start at the beginning of our blog or you can work backwards from when we brought Daughter of Purpose home in May of 2008. We're so glad you're on the road to bringing an orphan into your family. It's at the center of God's heart!
Parenting thoughts along our journey:
Here she is!
Before
Now
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2 comments:
Hm... We had the 8 doctor exam in Moscow. It was very easy. Nothing, really.
As regards the 10 day waiting period. From my experience, they either have people wait in a region, or they don't. In our region the waiting period is never required. Friends recently adopted from another region where it is always required. Even though they had no intention of requiring it, they nevertheless ask for a "reason" which always struck me funny. Here the child had been in the orphanage for ten years, and we "urgently" needed to enroll him in school! We always ended up staying in Russia a further ten days anyway, to add to the irony.
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