Paperwork! Paperwork! Paperwork! How many reading have gone through the adoption process? How many have felt like this after the 50th form, 20th notary, or apostile? If this is your second adoption - add a couple kids climbing on the desk and laundry piled just as high as the paperwork you're working on.
We are very excited about our next adoption and look forward to going to our chosen country and bringing our child or sibling group home! However, I am in the midst of filling out a very large application for our homestudy and still do not see any end to it! I feel a very strong pull to complete the application this weekend and am confident that with a little diet coke - I can do it!
The country we've chosen is the Ukraine. We are really excited and a little nervous since we've never adopted from their before. Russian adoption just keeps getting more difficult! Our original plan was to adopt two boys from the same orphanage we adopted the girls from - but costs and regulations and prayer-changed our minds. The Ukraine opened it's doors to adoption again in January just as we were making our decision. We plan to adopt a sibling group, although, we can't be certain we will be able to adopt a sibling group - we can hope!
The children are ages 14 months and up -which means, as long as we adopt in the next 14 months are children are already born. He or she is waiting for us to do our part - and get that paperwork filled out! It's emotional to think that they are already born, living away from our family, dependant on others. I have to put a lot of trust in Heavenly Father to protect them and guide us to them. We have a picture of the girl's at 3 months. You can't see who they are being held by -a nurse probably - they keep asking me who is holding them. I would love to say it was me - but that's just not how it was meant to happen.
How do you feel about adoption? And if you have adopted, what was the paperwork process like for you?
Goal: Finish Homestudy Application.
9 comments:
hi michelle -- great picture. hope you guys get what you want bad.
hey, i learned how to put a picture and a link in a post on my blog last night. i was so excited and pleased that i figured it out that i kept looking at the output. daughter the younger thought i was a dork because i kept looking at it and kept saying to her look what i did. she was annoyed that i wouldn't get off the computer. it wasn't as bad/hard as i thought it would be to add some stuff to a post. so, now i think it is easy. funny how "easy" something seems only after you have learned how to do it. i bet you are an expert at the adoption paperwork (and other) process.
best to you today :)
Why do they really have to make the process so vigorous? I haven't ever filled out the paper work or gone through it but have heard it is very stressful, etc. Good luck with it.
And so happy to hear your hubby is back. That expression on the girls faces are priceless!
Michelle, my old college mate adopted her first child only last year and wrote to tell me it was finally all signed and sealed - and she couldn't believe where her time had gone since they'd got their little boy! Haha!
Your post has reminded me that I need to write to her and check how it's all going.
I hope you can find the time and peace in all the usual bustle of family life to go through all the paperwork required.
As Graham Green, the writer, said, 'There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' I hope you walk through that Ukranian door v.soon! xx
What a process! I am sure that it can seem overwhelming. I hope you can get the time you need to fill out your papers. Good luck!
You can do it!! Adoption paperwork can be such a bear - endless pages of essay questions; and I've heard international paperwork is so much more intense - we've only adopted domestically. Our next adoption will be (hopefully) a sibling group through foster-adopt, and we've never done that before, so we're off on a new adventure, too.
Good luck to you getting it all done this weekend!
Hippy hop, hippity hop.
Will the Easter Bunny stop?
Will he leave a treat behind,
An Easter basket for me to find?
I'll look over here,
I'll look over there,
I'll look behind things,
I'll look everywhere
I'll look until I find my treat,
And then I'll sit right down and eat.
Happy Easter!
It is interesting to think that your next child may already have been born and is just waiting for you. Are your girls excited to get a new sibling or two?
How exciting that you are going to adopt again. I am sorry that the paper work is so time consumming. I can't stand paper work! I hope you, and your family had a wonderful Easter!
Having been through the process two times I can sympathize with you over the paperwork. It was a tad easier with the 2nd one because we were able to reference documents from our first adoption. It's so hard to think of your baby in an orphanage. I talk about it with Lily all the time and acknowledge my sadness and her sadness that I didn't get to care for her until she was 16 months. As we talked about Easter yesterday I was reminded that the atonement takes care of such injustices. I do believe there are angels watching over our babies.
Hope the process moves quickly for you.
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