Latest Update

Well, as many of you know, there's nothing new to report. We ended up not going forward with the domestic adoption and have decided to wait it out for China ... at least until our paperwork expires. When that time comes, we'll sit down and take a good hard look at where we're at in our life and see if we're going forward or if we're going to accept the fact that we will not have children.

There is a small glimmer .... about 2 or 3 weeks ago, I did receive an email from CHSFS advising that the CCAA had changed the way it matched waiting families with waiting children (known as WIC children). Typically, these children have some sort of medical issue. It could be something like a heart murmur or cleft pallet to something more serious like CP or something else. It has been brought to my attention that there are some older children, mostly boys, who have "aged out" and are perfectly healthy. For example, there's one little boy who is 4 years old but has never been adopted because everyone wants a little girl. Well, at this point in my life, I would consider a child like this.

The reason we have not gone forward with the process, which, by the way, would only take about 5-6 months, is that we're moving. Bob may be getting transferred to the Raleigh office with his job. We thought long and hard about this. We've decided to wait until I graduate from school (hopefully by the end of this year) and we're settled on where we'll be living. We thought it would be hard enough to uproot a child from the only home he knows (aka an orphanage or foster home) and bring him to a new country where no one speaks the same language as him, with parents he doesn't know and settle him in a home that will probably be changing in a short time.

Once we're settled, we'll regroup and figure out where we're going to go. Until that time, we'll just leave our paperwork sitting at the CCAA.

Hope everyone is well.

Love,
Faith