We met with our Adoption Specialist in mid January to work on our homestuday. At that meeting she told us that there is a need for families to adopt domestically, but to be open to a nonCaucasian child. Well, obviously since we're adopting from Ethiopia we're open to a nonCaucasian child. We had just never thought about adopting domestically. So we attended 2 meetings about the domestic program.
Then we were stumped. Do we continue with Ethiopia or switch to domestic? We could not decide, so we stopped the adoption process and just waited and prayed. I was sad to stop, but after thinking and praying my heart said, "I wish there was another option. This just doesn't seem right."
Move along now to last Friday. I emailed our Adoption Specialist with this question, just wondering:
"Is the Korea program full?"
Now, I know it's full. They only take so many families each year and they do that in September. So the program, of course, is full. But I just had to ask.
Guess what? She said they were accepting applications to the Korea program starting Monday (Feb. 1), they would only take applications for 3 weeks, and would we like to apply? What?! Oh my joy. That's it. That's what we have been waiting for, we just didn't know it.
We submitted our application to the Korea program on Wednesday (Feb. 3) and our Adoption Specialist just called today to welcome us to the Korea program. We're in and our homestudy will be done on Feb. 20, which starts us for the wait for referral. In 12-16 months we should have referral of a 6-8 month old boy or girl, then travel 2-4 months after that. So that takes us to about April 2011 for our son or daughter's arrival to our family.
We are so excited with this new direction. We look forward to traveling back to Korea and to incorporating more of Korea into our family life.
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wow! sorry I missed your call earlier, was putting gigi to what I hoped would be a nap (wishful thinking). we'll try to call when we're driving to my brother's later. xoxo.
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