An Overdue Post
It was brought to my attention by Heather Reddington yesterday that it has been more than a year since I’ve blogged on our adoption process. Me, being “always right” immediately challenged this claim and found out quickly I was wrong and she was right. So, now for an update on the past year …
We are still in the “waiting” stage BUT China does have all our paperwork. Our “log in date” is July 23, 2007. This means that on that date the Chinese authorities logged our paperwork and put us in line basically.
As of today “referrals” (the documents which actually have one’s child’s name) are coming about 24 to 26 months after login date. This being the case we’ll get our referral for our daughter, who we’ve already named Ruby, sometime around August 2009 or later. It is likely she’ll be about 12 months old at that time. If you do the math, this means that she’s probably been conceived but not yet born.
This is an odd place to be for us as we wait. To think that we’re adopting a little girl that isn’t yet born. That her mother may not have yet made a decision to give her up or abandon her. To think that this mother probably loves this baby girl very much and may be having to make a difficult decision because of finances or cultural pressures. We just don’t know but we pray the mother is healthy and is taking good care of this precious yet to be born girl.
In the meantime, we wait. At this point the only items on our to do list are to do fund raising and apply for grants to help offset the costs. In the end it’ll likely be around $16,000 to $20,000. Thankfully that is spread out and we’re about halfway through the expenses.
Look for another entry … in less than a year’s time.
- Kyle Dreier