We just received our acceptance agreement (a legal contract stating, among other things, that we will adopt the boys) and child reports (medical exams, declarations of birth, etc.) in the mail yesterday. Once we have some questions answered about what we're signing, we'll send it back to our agency. Tomorrow, we hope! Then, once they receive it and our next payment, they'll send our home study to their lawyer overseas, who will prepare affidavits for us.
Then we wait. For a week, or for a month. That's the expected range of time it could take.
When we receive those affidavits, we'll finish compiling our dossier, which will be sent back overseas to be used to file for a court date.
Then we wait again, for another month, maybe. That seems to be the current trend, but of course, like all things in intercountry adoption, that could change at any time.
The next thing we hear will be news of a court date, which may be weeks away, or perhaps days. We'll book plane tickets, pack bags, and tie up loose ends. We'll try not to explode from the excitement.
Because soon, someday soon, we will meet three precious boys who will, we hope, be our sons. I can still hardly believe that we could be so blessed. With all our shortcomings, all our failures, all our short-temperedness and unfaithfulness and the ugliness in our hearts, God is still choosing to give us the gift that is these boys. Wow. He is so good!
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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