Good News

I have two bits of great news to share today.  First, our last reference letters made it to our social worker this week so we have received a draft of our home study today to look over.  Once we look through it and correct any errors then it will be sent on to our adoption agency.  Now all we have left to do is get 2 more reference letters and just a couple of other things done for our dossier and we are done-as far as all the paperwork goes anyway.  Once our adoption agency has our home study and dossier they will send it to the Philippines to get approval from ICAB which takes about 6 weeks, and then our 2 year wait for a referral will begin.

The other bit of great news I have is that the group of siblings that we wanted to adopt to begin with has finally been matched.  I still think about them a lot and have been praying that someone will adopt them soon, so it made me so happy today to see their photo in the matched children section instead of the waiting children.  I guess this shows that these really were not meant to be our kids and that the Lord knows what He is doing.  If we had pushed to adopt these kids we still would not have been able to do so.  You can’t request a match until your home study is completed.  It’s kind of interesting how it worked out that our home study was finished the same day that these kids were matched to someone else.