An October celebration

I have been thinking for a while now that I should write an update, but there was nothing more to report, until today. And all I can say is just when I thought life couldn't get any better after my Jayhawks beat the Wildcats this past Saturday, I found out I was wrong. We are excited to learn that it looks like we may be getting our kids a little sooner than expected. As of right now, CHI is awaiting approvals from all dossiers sent to the ICBF (the Colombian government) in July. Since our dossier was sent in August, our processing will be next. The only uncertainty is if they will process it before the middle of December. It is at that time when they take a winter "break" until mid-January. If they do not get our dossier processed by mid-December, we will probably be looking at February as the time when we receive our approval.

The above information is nothing new. This is what we expected all along. THIS is the exciting info . . . once we are approved (by no later than February, it appears) the wait time for sibling groups of two between 0and 7 years has been reduced from 12 months to 4-6 months!!!! This means that by summer's end we should have our kids! I can not tell you how excited I am! Although we have not been in the adoption"process" for a lengthy period of time, it is always nice to have bits of news, no matter how insignificant they may be, to break up the monotony of waiting. I can't lie that the cautious side of me does keep in the back of my head that as quickly as things have changed for the better, they can just as quickly be changed for the worse. I have found it is easiest to realize that I am powerless over the situation and that we will have our children when they are intended to be ours.

So, I can say with a pretty good degree of certainty that our soon-to-be children are in foster care at this time. While our hearts are full of happiness at this tremendous news, we can not overlook the fact that our children are living through difficult times of adjustment right now. It does heavy our hearts and all we can do is hope that our prayers of hope and love reach them each and every day until they are in our arms. Please pray that God will keep them strong and give them courage to believe that life will get better. It's amazing how much love I already feel for them when they are nameless and faceless. I know how wonderful it was to be a parent the first time around, and I can't wait to experience it once again!

So, that's all for now. We will update you when more comes our way!

Traci