Well, it’s been a week – in a good way! We are in this for real, as in – we have officially
pre-applied for international adoption!
This has not been done without hesitance or fear or
concerns. I’ll save those for another post. We’re taking a leap of faith here, and we’re
cool with that. I believe that God wants
us to be parents, and that He desperately wants orphans to become part of
Christian families.
Last weekend I joyfully began filling out the
pre-application. I hunted down 4x6
photos of us and of our home. I dug out
our last three years of tax returns and made copies of page one of each of
them. We read the lengthy “adoption
services agreement” and went to the bank to get it signed and notarized. Four non-relatives – each of whom knew we’d
been unable to have biological children and were supportive of adoption – were contacted
and asked if they were willing to be ‘non-relative personal references’ for us. Lastly, we wrote a $300 check for the
pre-application fee and mailed it off.
God is already giving us little things that assure us we
have His blessing. Number one – we completed
this paperwork on Sept. 12. It was 11
years to the day that my sweet
cousins were scheduled to come home from Russia. Wow, that was an emotional realization – but in
the most wonderful way! The second
assurance we got was when I received an e-mail reply from our (well, soon-to-be
‘our’) social worker saying that she had no
other homestudies in progress at this time, so we could get that done
pretty quickly if we wanted to! Oh
Jesus! You are too good to us!
Finally, we’d been told to plan on getting three certified
copies of our marriage certificate (and birth certificates) for the homestudy, and I need a fourth marriage certificate to renew my passport (it expires
in February, and I’ve gotten married since, so proof of change
in surname is required). I didn’t want to wait 4-6
weeks for the copies to come before sending in passport renewal paperwork, but
I also wasn’t thrilled about sending our only copy to the U.S. government and
trusting them to not lose it. This
morning I was filling out the request for copies and went to dig out our
existing copy to make sure everything matched.
Um, we have two copies! I just squealed, “We have two!”
I have no recollection of two, just one.
But this is wonderful, because now I feel perfectly fine sending one of
those off with my passport renewal paperwork.
Thank you, Lord!
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