Well, we didn't actually make a decision. It was sort of made for us. We waited to hear from our agency and never did, so our fingerprints have expired. I highly doubt that we will pursue our dream any further. At this point, if we were to continue, we would have to have our home study updated, our daughter fingerprinted by the local police and then all 4 of us would have to be fingerprinted for clearance to bring an orphan into the country. That adds up to lots more $$ that we just don't have.
This has been a hard day for me once I realized that this was happening. You see, I had picked out the song that we were going to have sung at our children's dedication (our dd was going to sing it). I heard it today while I was listening to my favorite CD. It was then that I realized that my dream of adopting had come to an end. Well, not the dream really, just the realization that we wouldn't be adopting.
It's a difficult thing to think about, but God knows what is best for our family. I still believe that there are children in Zambia that would benefit from the love and nurture that we could give them, but it's just not to be. At least not now. And since we aren't getting any younger . . . well, you get the idea.
If for some reason things change drastically, I'll be back with that news. But for now, this blog is just going to sit here without any updates. It's my journal of our road to adoption and that will never change.
Thanks for following along on this journey with me. I have appreciated all of you that have prayed for us and stuck by us. Thanks, too, to the many of you that have donated $$ to help us in this journey. I hope that you don't think that your money was wasted. We can't control the outcome; we can only do what God leads us to do. In that regard we have learned much!
We love all of you!
Carolyn
This has been a hard day for me once I realized that this was happening. You see, I had picked out the song that we were going to have sung at our children's dedication (our dd was going to sing it). I heard it today while I was listening to my favorite CD. It was then that I realized that my dream of adopting had come to an end. Well, not the dream really, just the realization that we wouldn't be adopting.
It's a difficult thing to think about, but God knows what is best for our family. I still believe that there are children in Zambia that would benefit from the love and nurture that we could give them, but it's just not to be. At least not now. And since we aren't getting any younger . . . well, you get the idea.
If for some reason things change drastically, I'll be back with that news. But for now, this blog is just going to sit here without any updates. It's my journal of our road to adoption and that will never change.
Thanks for following along on this journey with me. I have appreciated all of you that have prayed for us and stuck by us. Thanks, too, to the many of you that have donated $$ to help us in this journey. I hope that you don't think that your money was wasted. We can't control the outcome; we can only do what God leads us to do. In that regard we have learned much!
We love all of you!
Carolyn
