A LONG overdue update

I wish I had so much more to say right now, but I don't. Adoption is a long process full of waiting, and that starts as soon as you decide to adopt.

So here's where we are. Orginally, Haiti had a 35/10/0 rule. Meaning one adult had to be 35 years old, married for 10 years, and no biological children. We aren't there yet. We knew going into this process that there was wiggle room with the number of children you had...that wasn't ever a concern for us. Paul will turn 35 in July 2013 and we'll be married for 9 years. We also knew that we could get a document certifying that we had been together for 10 years (and it would include the time with dated in there). We were told that if want any more bio kids to try for that while we were waiting for summer 2013 to come around and we were closer to "qualifying".

So during the waiting time one MAJOR thing happened...the Haitian government decided it was time to change the laws. That is good news for us and bad news for us. The good news is the new law is 30/5/2...meaning one adult has to be 30, you have to be married for 5 years, and you can have 2 bio kids. Yay! As of October 1st we'll qualify. However, that's not all that's changing and no one knows what the rest of it is going to turn out to be.

One major thing that is changing is that Haiti will now be a Hague country. That is good for the kiddos in Haiti as it provides them more protection. However, our agency is NOT Hague accredited. So they have to become Hague accredited. That takes time and money. We don't know if they are going to do it.

So we're still waiting. We're waiting to find out what is going to change in Haiti as they become a Hague country. We're waiting to see what our agency is going to do so we can figure out if we need to find a new agency. We're waiting.

Please continue to pray for us while we wait. Waiting is not the easiest thing to do.