On August 20th we received our I800a update approval for our new age parameters. It was approved on August 14th. Chareyl actually emailed me on the 20th to say she'd received her copy of the approval and already sent it off to Haiti before I'd even gotten to our mailbox to see our own approval letter that day!
So! We're back to...just wait and pray. There isn't much else that we can do other than hope the referral Chareyl has been advocating for us goes through. I hope it's soon. I'm feeling so weary.
Tomorrow marks exactly 3 years since our file entered IBESR in Haiti. It's been more than 3 years 8 months since we signed on to adopt from Haiti with Wasatch. And we're only 5 weeks shy of hitting our 6 year mark since we started this entire adoption process. We did have 4 weeks between ending our adoption from Ethiopia and officially starting with Haiti, but this whole entire journey has gone on for nearly 6 years. And we don't even know who our daughter is yet! And then we likely have a year long roller coaster to get her home once we do meet her. I truly am weary. Ready for the next stage. To see her face. To hold her. To have smaller steps in the journey to bringing her home.
Last night Lincoln (our 10 year old) started talking about things he may want to put on his wish list for Christmas. Then he switched gears and told me that there really are 3 things he really wants the most in life. He proceeded to tell me that in order of importance, what he wants the very most is for his sister to come home *melt* followed by a dog and then thirdly that he'd love a gaming system.
