Questions

I (we) have been getting a lot of questions lately like "When are you going to bring your children home?" or "How is the adoption going?" Or my favorite "What's taking so long?" and the comment that followed ---"You should adopt from another country it would probably be a lot quicker" I'll address that in another post.
I never feel like I have a good answer. I am going to attempt to answer those questions here so the next time I am asked I can refer back to this post.
How is the adoption going?
GREAT! Just fine. It's proceeding just as God intended it to. Many of you know that foreign or domestic adoptions can take months to years. Look at China or Russia. The time period for those countries can be 3 years or longer even after you get a referral for your child---a fancy name for "when you find out which child you will be adopting"
My husband made the decision to go forward with adopting back in October 2008. That was only 7 months ago. I have been ready for over a decade! It takes time!
God lead us to the children we are adopting rather early in this process. We hadn't even had a homestudy yet. A homestudy is when you hire a social worker to come to your house and study/inspect things. They then approve or disapprove you to adopt. They then send your information on to the adoption agency you choose to work with and on to government for final approval. For us, this all happened at the speed of light.
As you know from previous posts adoptions in the country of Liberia were shut down for a time while they re-work adoption laws and address the best way to handle them. I applaud the president of this country for standing up for her children! This needed to happen.
We as a couple are using this time to pray for our children in Liberia and prepare for their homecoming. We trust that God has EVERYTHING under control and He will accomplish His plan for all of us!
As a side note: Children's issues are supposed to be addressed in June in Liberia. Please pray for the leadership that is involved.
Thanks for reading!
Ami

Liberian Adoption Bill

Here is a link to a copy of the Bill. If it doesn't work to link to it just cut and paste.
http://wacsnspiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html

It looks like the information we received and posted previously about the four month stay, and both parents having to be deceased was not correct.

We are getting closer to bringing Lydia and Leo Home!!!!!!!!!!