Hi everyone! Well, this is my first attempt at a real life blog. I thought it would be a great way to keep our family and friends updated on the adoption process. First of all, we want everyone to know how much we have appreciated your thoughts, prayers, and inquiries over the last couple of years. Can you believe it's been so long since we started this process?!
For the past year, we've been waiting for the Russian government (4 different "ministries" involved) to issue our adoption agency reaccreditation. It's kind of like renewing a license each year. It seems there have been a lot of mysterious hold ups and these ministries have been very slow to act. And it's not just our agency. In fact, since April of 2006, Russia had not renewed any accreditations. :(
However, after this very, very long wait... we just learned that there are 5 agencies that will finally receive their accreditation certificates this week. Our agency (America World Adoption Agency) just notified us that they expect to be in the next group to receive accreditation. Hopefully, in the next 1-2 months things will be up and running again!
Now, we still may have a long wait ahead of us before we are matched with our child(ren). But, all of this reaccreditation news is very encouraging. So, we continue to hold on, with confidence, that this is truly God's plan for us and the way we are meant to grow our family.
Thanks for checking in! Hopefully we'll have more news soon! And Happy Fourth of July!
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