Thursday, September 25, 2008

Adoption Update

I can't imagine anyone follows this poorly updated blog, but for my own historical purposes, I will post an update to our adoption process.

A couple weeks ago, we had our home study updated and in a few weeks, we'll get fingerprinted for immigration for the 2nd time in the process. Most likely, we will have to do all of this at least one more time before we bring Julia home. China wait times seem to be getting longer by the day, but there are so many variables that it remains impossible to precisely predict. I just saw a prediction of a 30% attrition rate of those who are on the waiting list - that's good news for us and sad news for those who felt led to adopt from China and had gone through a very laborious process to submit their application.

As I posted in January, we remain confident in this being the right direction for us, and we will wait. All things in God's perfect timing.

I continue to train for marathons to pass the time, along with the few other things I have my hands in, like work, church, etc. :)