I'll start with the good news. Our dossier has been translated into French and has been sent over to the Democratic Republic of Congo. That is very exciting and also a little weird to think that all our personal information will be looked over by people in such a foreign country. We are venturing into the international part of the adoption. Things will now progress according to Congo's customs and typical speed of work (which is to say- slow).
On a more personal (and admittedly, less exciting) note, I recently did some online shopping through amazon. I made a couple of small purchases (one for Matt and one for me), but needed to spend more money to get free shipping. So, I bought my very first thing for our baby (a giraffe stuffed animal/ blanket that we will send to him in his first care package). This may not seem like a big deal, but I have purposefully refrained from buying anything for him throughout our whole adoption process. It has not always been easy, but my plan was to wait until we received a referral. Finally buying something just for him was very fun and exciting and it made it feel like he is a part of our family.
Now onto the bad news. We heard back from Lifesong (one of the organizations we applied to for an adoption grant) and they decided not to give us any funds. This is disappointing news, but we still have three other applications out and I will look for more to apply to. I am not too worried about it right now because no matter how the finances work out, we will complete the adoption and bring our son home. The worst case scenario is we will have to take out a large loan, which will delay our plans for many years to: buy a new car (I don't know how well our two large dogs, the baby and baby gear will fit into our Jeep Liberty), buy a house (the house we are currently renting is not set up that well for more than one kid), and start our second international adoption (which will be funded almost entirely by loans). So, yes, we will bring this one child home, but how it is accomplished will greatly influence our future adoption(s). Please pray for us!
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