I have hope, expectation and anticipation for big changes in this year. I am praying that this will be the year two little ones will be placed in my arms and become ours. Our lives will never be the same again. Please pray with us that this dream of ours will come true.
I'm not sure if I've explained the hows of adopting two girls at one time. One comes from the waiting child list and one comes from the special focus list. Waiting children are children with special needs or ones that are a little bit older. CCCWA found out that some children are on this list a long time and still aren't adopted. In order to better advocate for the adoption of these children, they began the special focus program in September 2010. Children who have been on the waiting child list for more than 60 days or who are somehow deemed "hard to adopt" are placed on this list. (More info can be found here.) If a couple is willing to adopt a child from the special focus list, they can use the same dossier from a previous adoption. These adoptions can take place simultaneously, which is what we're hoping for, or concurrently. However, we're beginning to understand that finding a girl under two with minor needs from the special focus list may prove to be more difficult than we realize.
So, things are getting ironed out for our dossier to be sent to China...hopefully sent by late January, and our match for our first girl from the waiting list will come sometime in February. However, we are contemplating what may need to happen for a match from the special focus list. We may need to change our home study to allow us to adopt an older child or a boy. We're not sure. For now just pray that we will continue to trust that God knows who these little ones are and that His timing is perfect.
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hey Erika...my husband and I were dead set on adopting two children from Russia, with the request for two under the age of 2. At the last minute, someone recommended we change our age range to open up our options. The Lord gave us a 3 year old boy and a 15 month boy. I was leary about adopting an older child, but I can tell you Dmitry (our 3 year old) is amazing and I can't think of my life without him now. If we would not have changed our age range, we would have never met him...and that just makes me shutter! Praying for the Lord to direct your steps and guide your decisions! Feel free to email if you ever have questions: ashley.fischbach@gmail.com
Erika,
I'm not sure if you remember me, but I was on the plane to China with you and we talked for quite awhile about God at work. You shared with me The Connected Child...and from that, I ended up going to the Empowered to Connect conference... loved it!! So thank you for being a piece of that for me!
But also I just wanted to encourage you in your wait...love the four stockings and the HOPE... God is so encouraging me to rest in his timing right now. We've been unemployed for a year, with four kids, and waiting on what he has for us next. But in the meantime, I am soaking up what he has for me here. I fully believe he is so purposeful in his unfolding. I'm excited to hear what he does in your story, and what he does in mine. It is worth the wait, and his ways are nothing short of amazing.
Believing God with you!
Julie Richards
Thanks so much, Julie! Of course I remember you. That plane ride was so much more enjoyable because I met you! His plans are purposeful and amazing, but we both know the waiting isn't easy at times. I want to join you in soaking up what He has for me each day.
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