Change in Plans

Flexible...be flexible. That should be a mantra for any parent who is adopting. This morning we received a call from our agency asking again about our willingness to change what we had requested. Because of various circumstances that have recently occurred in Rwanda with international adoptions, the government is becoming very hesitant to refer children that are under 1 year of age. International adoption, as a whole, is very new to this country, and the agency we're working with, America World, is also in the pioneering stages of developing their adoption program with Rwanda. Needless to say, there is a lot of learning and changing things on everyone's part, and rightly so. We're so grateful that the Rwandan government, the US government, and AWAA have the best interest of the children and us in mind.

Because of all this, our agency coordinator said that the orphanage would now like to refer a healthy, 12 1/2 month boy to our family. Would we be willing to think about it? To heck with thinking about it... yes!! It was pretty funny because she had both Justin and I on a conference call, since he and I were in different locations at the time. I asked Justin during the call what he thought about it, and he just laughed. "I know exactly what you want to do," he said. What a great guy! Terra (our agency coordinator) said that hopefully (keep our fingers crossed) she really would have all the paperwork for our referral together and to us by the end of the week. Thank you Jesus!