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As some of you may have known a little over a year ago ldc had a miscarriage. It was a pretty traumatic thing for us and we both really struggled with the aftermath of it. As the month of January wore on we found ourselves wondering where our family should go from there.
Around this same time was the horrendous earthquake in Haiti and stories of orphans from that tragedy started making the rounds. ldc and I spent a lot of time thinking about if adoption would be right for us, it started feeling more and more like it might be. Then one Sunday morning last January I was reading CUF and YOhio posted this amazing story, something came over me and I ran upstairs and shoved the computer into ldc's face and made her read it. In tears both of us knew that adding to our family this way was something we wanted.
By the time we had gotten involved adoptions from Haiti had been shut down while families sorted out the problems in the country. We met with Holt International based out of Eugene, and began the process of adopting. When we began the process last February we were told it would be somewhere between 6-8 months. As 8 months turned into 11 and ldc began losing patience as well as the precious little that remained of her mind, we were told last week that due to some shady dealings by some adoption agencies in Ethiopia the government was shutting things down and no babies were going to be placed for at least another month.
We were distraught. Then this morning we received a call that Holt had one baby in the system that was to be assigned before the new governmental rules went into play, and that he was meant for our family. Sometime from the end of March-April we will travel to Ethiopia to take part of the legal adoption proceedings, then in late May-June we will make a return trip to bring him home.
We have been warned repeatedly not to post in public places they pictures we received, as that is a violation of some kind of deal with the Ethiopian government and has in the past caused them to vacate adoption referrals. Rest assured that he has the right personality to fit right into our home as in the pictures we received he is wearing a shirt that says "Little Lady" and he is pulling it off quite well.
At times it seemed like there was a dark cloud wrapped around our family for the last year. This morning as we sat around the computer with HFN Jr, Captain and Goose looking at pictures and reading the details of how he came to be in the orphanage and assigned to us it felt as though the sun had pushed away all the clouds and made was shining directly onto us.
Around this same time was the horrendous earthquake in Haiti and stories of orphans from that tragedy started making the rounds. ldc and I spent a lot of time thinking about if adoption would be right for us, it started feeling more and more like it might be. Then one Sunday morning last January I was reading CUF and YOhio posted this amazing story, something came over me and I ran upstairs and shoved the computer into ldc's face and made her read it. In tears both of us knew that adding to our family this way was something we wanted.
By the time we had gotten involved adoptions from Haiti had been shut down while families sorted out the problems in the country. We met with Holt International based out of Eugene, and began the process of adopting. When we began the process last February we were told it would be somewhere between 6-8 months. As 8 months turned into 11 and ldc began losing patience as well as the precious little that remained of her mind, we were told last week that due to some shady dealings by some adoption agencies in Ethiopia the government was shutting things down and no babies were going to be placed for at least another month.
We were distraught. Then this morning we received a call that Holt had one baby in the system that was to be assigned before the new governmental rules went into play, and that he was meant for our family. Sometime from the end of March-April we will travel to Ethiopia to take part of the legal adoption proceedings, then in late May-June we will make a return trip to bring him home.
We have been warned repeatedly not to post in public places they pictures we received, as that is a violation of some kind of deal with the Ethiopian government and has in the past caused them to vacate adoption referrals. Rest assured that he has the right personality to fit right into our home as in the pictures we received he is wearing a shirt that says "Little Lady" and he is pulling it off quite well.
At times it seemed like there was a dark cloud wrapped around our family for the last year. This morning as we sat around the computer with HFN Jr, Captain and Goose looking at pictures and reading the details of how he came to be in the orphanage and assigned to us it felt as though the sun had pushed away all the clouds and made was shining directly onto us.
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