First thing in the morning I had another little boy to drop off to camp. Austin was going to his first week long Bible camp. He was so very thrilled! We rose early and got him there just after 8:30am.
Picking His Choice of Bed
Saying Goodbye to Little Brother
After I dropped him off I had lots of stops with two little guys in tow. First,I had to go to get passport pictures taken for my visa and for the Ethiopian dossier. Dossier is the word for the huge file that we are beginning to compile with all our life story in it. After this, I headed to the police station, to get my fingerprints taken and fill in papers for a criminal record search and a vulnerable person's check. This will all be done all over again for the second agency, in about three weeks!!
I don't look at this as a pain, though. As a wise friend told me on Sunday, "Enjoy the journey." If all of this falls into place, it will have been just like a pregnancy - just a different kind of delivery! One made up of adventure and travel and culture! Unbelieveable. The stuff that I love!
After the police station, I headed home to get our marriage certificate, birth certificates, driver's licenses, health insurance, life insurance, and citizenship papers. All of this had to be either photocopied for the dossier, or some of it had to be taken to the notary to be photocopied and then notarized by the lawyer.
I spent the rest of my afternoon getting the business books up to date, so that I could take them to the accountant to get a letter stating our business affairs.
That evening I filled in the application form to Kidslink. This asked us such questions as whether we wanted a male or female child and why? Also, what age were we looking for and why. I wrote our reasons for wanting a little one. If we only get one child, then we want a little one of about 18 - 36 months, so we can see all her 'firsts'. Just like Briton, yesterday, when he put his sandles on for the first time.
If we were to get a sibling group, then we would be open to the second one being between 36 months and 7 years. We have not decided to take a second child. Right now there are pros and cons to having one or two. For the sake of the child, though, having a sibling would probably be more comforting when she is brought to a strange land, where she doesn't speak a word of English! Also, having another person of her skin colour and culture might be nice. I also think that having one little girl might be overwhelming to her in a sea of boys! And to me as a mother, one little girl might be more difficult than two, as they can play together! And of course, we all know the reasons why two would be more difficult than one. We just want to leave the door open, so that if God intends us to have a second child we are ready for it.
I know of two adoptions (out of three, that I know of personally) where after they had committed to their child, they found out there was a sibling, in another orphanage. That would be devastating to be legally bound by red tape and to have to leave a sibling in the orphanage, just because you hadn't left the door open! We just want to be open to the Lord's leading
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To encourage you on the 1 or 2 choice, if it is found out later that there is a blood relative to a child you have adopted, things will be expedited and processed so you can adopt the sibling as well. :)
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