Not much news to report. Still no word from the state regarding the little boy. We heard this week from St Joesph Ministry's and they are sending our home study to a couple of agency's they have recently spoke to. As for now we continue to pray.

waiting for a e-mail

This week we spoke to our state about a child listed on a website. He is listed at legal risk which means his birth mothers rights have not been terminated. We are going to get more information from the social worker that is on his case. Apparently this little boy has had a lot of inquires. It took us a week of leaving messages with no return calls to finally reach a person. I am not going to expect to hear from any one for a week or two.

Back to Blogging

I can't believe it has been so long sense my last post. Not much has happened with our adoption. It seemed like we had not heard from St Joesph Ministry in a while so we called to keep in touch but had to leave a message. The same day we got a call about a set of twin girls but were 10 years old. We thought long and hard but ultimately decided to keep our daughter the oldest. When we are with friends she tends to take care of the younger children so we think she will be a great big sister.

This past weekend we spent the day at a snow sculpture contest. It is amazing how a block of snow can be transformed. Sam enjoyed playing in the snow more that anything. It was a nice family day.

Moving forward

We have decided to not try to adopt this little girl not only due to the complications with the state, but also because the mothers facilitator will not provide any records until we have traveled. So we will continue on the journey to adopt.

Disappointed

We knew there would be hurdles but had no idea how high we had to jump! Our state/agency is not adoptive friendly. They make it hard to adopt out of state, because they want you to adopt in state. Basically there are 4 states involved in this adoption, and our state has a problem with that. So we have tried to eliminate one by relinquishing in another state but now are state/agency is not happy with that either. In the past we have found that lawyers, agency, and the state work together. I believe it is important to protect against child trafficking but I think this situation is going far beyond that, there needs to be a one federal law and not individual state laws to prevent trafficking and allow families and children to come together. We are still pursing options with this adoption , and are putting our faith in God.

New hope

We received a call yesterday from St Joesph Ministry's and they have found a five year old girl who needs a home. Another thing we have learned in the adoption process is everything is a hurry up and wait. So Rob and I spent the afternoon and evening getting our letter and photos fedex'ed out. We are hopeful but highly doubtful because of so many hurdles that are involved.