Adoption Update

Well, I meant to get this posted last week, but since I was on a blogging hiatus, I didn't get it done.

Two weeks ago tomorrow we learned that our home study would have to be notarized by an American notary and then go through the process of authentication. Again. Our original home study was authenticated with the rest of our dossier back in February. But since it was updated, it has to go through the process again. That meant that the Kenyan notary we paid to notarize the home study just the week before was no good. So, we called up our home study agency here, explained the situation, arranged a time for us to pick up our social worker and his boss, and go to the US Embassy for them to sign before the notary. That time turned out to be this morning. We picked them up at their office at 7:30am and began the trek to the Embassy. This morning it took just over an hour. There was a five car wreck on one of the roads. Don't ask me which one, I'm not good with road names. But we finally made it. It's so nice to be American citizens and be able to walk to the front of the line! We didn't have to wait too long once we got to the line of American citizens. We were able to pay our whooping $50 for one notarization and be on our way in almost record time. We dropped our friends off and made our way back home. Now to get it sent back with Mom and Dad although I'm not wishing their time here away.

The other thing we found out around that same time a couple weeks ago is that we are going to have to go through the process of re-adoption. There is nothing that says we have to re-adopt, but in the best interest of our son, it seems like the best route to take. Since our adoption is finalized in Ethiopia, it is not considered an American adoption. For him to be legally recognized as our son in the US, we have to go through the process of re-adoption. We are still trying to figure out what all this means for us. There are several things that we have no idea how they will pan out. But we are trusting the Lord in all this. We know He knows how things are going to work out, and that's good enough for us right now.

So, that's where we are on the adoption front. We're almost to 8 months waiting. We are inching closer. In His time.