Per Kate's request, here's a general idea of a timeline. We've been on our agency's "interested families" list for the Waiting Child Program since July 2007. At that time there were between 80-100 families on that list. Even though we were no where near being paper ready, we knew we were going SN, so we added our name. The agency is currently telling families to expect a wait of anywhere from 8-14months on that list. Now that we are paper ready, and have been on the list for 10 months, it solely depends on what children the agency receives, and if any of those children match the criteria we said we were open too. Just so you know, we are open to a female, age 0-36 months, with specific special needs (we listed several we were comfortable with, too long to list or go into.) For a GREAT blog about "why special needs?" you can check out this family that returned with their child a few weeks ago.
So where does that put us? Honestly, ONLY THE LORD KNOWS. We're asking the Lord to allow us to travel to China in 2008. We've been praying that all along. We know that the staff at AWAA pray over each child and fervently seek the Lord when deciding what family to call for what child. Every time we get an email that they've gotten a new "list," we pray that the Lord would write our name on their hearts and as soon as they see our Ashley, they'll know without a doubt she belongs with us. We totally trust them and the process, which is so rare in adoption agencies these days.
Hope that makes a little sense. You can pray with us that we'll see her face this year. That we'll be able to bring her home and put this part of the process behind us....because we know after we bring her home, a whole new process will begin!!!!
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Hi Emily
I documented my dreams I had also. I have to say the one I had right before referral actually looked just like her.
And thanks for the time line. That helps alot.:)
Kate
Thanks for asking about finances. it's a strange things, this process! There have been times that we were ready to move forward, but didn;t have the money. And times (like now) when we do have the money, and are waiting on papers...either way, adoption, in general, is just a different word for "wait." :)
We currently have the money to turn all our stuff in, and have a jump start on our next round, which will be travel. Let me say, we have a small start, but a start nonetheless. We're planning some more fundraisers this summer and waiting to hear back from a few grants. All total we need about 8,000.00....this includes the two week trip to china. It can be overwhelming when you look at it, but we know the One who owns the cattle on a thousand hills! He will provide. He must! He called us to this and He will make it work. Nuff' said :)
One more thing on the wait...
we were totally expecting this proess to take us 18-24 months. People thought we were crazy lunatics when we applied to adopt and our youngest child was only 6 months old. (sound familiar, Jen?)
However, it's now a year later and that baby is our 18 month old! We wanted the girls to be close in age, and we knew that this was the time the Lord was telling us to go. We originally thought we'd be doing this when our girls were more like 5,7,and 9 but God had other plans. All that to say, we expected this wait, and we are at peace with it. Doesn;t mean we didn;t want her home like yesterday, just means we were emotionally prepared for a 2 year process.
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