waiting...sigh

i wish i was better at waiting.

you sure would think by now i would have this thing nailed.

i do not.

sigh.

we have not heard any news at all lately.

we do not even know if our dossier has been accepted.

we do know that our attorney is out of town with another family who is adopting. so we will not have any news until the beginning of the week.

for some reason that seems like a long, long time from now.

we are praying for a miracle.

i would be honored if you would join us in praying for these children to be matched to us this month. sometime in the next week there will be a matching meeting in peru. we do not know the specific date, it is not even posted on the website. so we wonder. so we pray. so we hope.

i am in sore need of a little encouragement.

the wait is long and hard.

i know others that have been waiting for their sweet children for longer than us. i know families with empty arms. i know friends that are hoping that foreign governments will change their minds.

the good news is that we should have everything ready to send off to uscis very soon. the addendum was completed and mailed today. we also received the additional document we needed from our agency too. so just another little waiting game for all of the documents to come here and then to overnight on to uscis. another check written to homeland security....which feels strange to write to say the least. i need to finish up that paperwork tonight to have it all ready for the hubster to send on friday (if it gets here) or monday if it is when it lands.

we decided to up the age to 12. little lady turned 11 last week, so we are changing things in hopes of making her ours. our agency thought we should go a little higher, just to make sure. then once it is all done a copy will be sent to peru to be added to our file. once we get uscis approval we will send it to all of the agencies and peru too. this was not something that peru specifically asked us for, rather something that uscis will need. so to make our lives a little bit easier, we thought we would go ahead and just "get 'er done". now we just wait for the documents.

have i mentioned i'm not very good at waiting? sigh.