Monday, February 13, 2012

P, P, and F

I have to say that when I started this blog, I was a little judgmental of other women with adoption blogs because I wanted them to post more often. It's not that hard, right? Just tell us what's going on! Come on.
Well, now I am one of those women. I think of posting often, probably at least once a day. But, then I have to come up with something worthy of your time to write about.
We are just in a small holding pattern right now. I've gotten most of the ground work done for our Dossier and we are waiting for a few things to happen. Our psychological evaluations are being done on Thursday...which, by the way, someone asked me recently if I was nervous about this evaluation. Should I be? I don't feel nervous. Should I feel nervous? I love my life. Past, present, and future. And I love talking, so what is there to be nervous about?
After we get our evaluation, we will need to send off our TX documents off to the Secretary of State (I feel like I've posted about this before). The kid's and Jonathan's birth certificates, our marriage license, and the evaluation have to be apostilled in Texas. That shouldn't take too long.
We are waiting on one more reference letter to come in and then we can take all of our documents to the New Mexico Secretary of State and have them apostilled. They recommend that we do this before our Immigration approval comes in so that we can just have everything ready and go back in for that one document.
I've been reading mixed information about Honduras lately. Things are moving there. A member of Congress introduced a bill to help speed up the process of orphans finding a home. And a new director was appointed to the Instituto Hondureño del Niño y la Familia, also known as "IHNFA", which is a social welfare agency charged by the Honduran government with overseeing local and international adoptions. The last one was fired January 2011. So, hopefully this will get the process moving too. I don't know if the bill in Congress was passed or if it was passed, how long it will take to implement quicker adoptions but it feels like movement in the right direction. 
But some people are always the Debbie Downers. (Some people might call them realists.) I am a part of a Honduran Adoption Yahoo Group and there is someone who posts that doesn't see the Honduran world through rose colored glasses. Which really is good. But, I want to believe the best. The best, not necessarily for me, but for all of those kids. The kids sitting in orphanages for up to SIX YEARS waiting to be adopted out. Gosh, there are families that want them. I hope and pray that someone will be put in charge that can work for them. 
Anyway, just because I'm not posting a lot doesn't mean we don't need your prayers. Keep 'em coming. 

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