Neutral news on the timeline

I say neutral, because it is neither good, nor bad- just news.

I spoke with our family coordinator today. She said, in the past, it has usually taken 2-3 months to actually "submit" a dossier to a region- meaning actually assigning us to a baby home (orphanage). - So we have almost officially 1 week in for that waiting time :)

Once our dossier is submitted to a home, we would be matched up with a "referral"- our baby. We would then have 1 week to decide nyet or da (no or yes) and travel to meet our child within 1-2 weeks after that.

Krasnoyarsk has typically had a 3-4 month wait between trips one (where we go over and meet the baby and sign the initial paperwork) and trip two (when we are called back by the judge for a court date to finalize the adoption and bring our baby home).

Soooo, we are praying that, since there have been very few children placed in the last year, that these wait times will be decreased, the children would be placed in their forever homes much more quickly and we can finalize our adoption and be home before Christmas.

I know God is ultimately in control, and I can trust in His unfailing love- He knows the plans He has for us- plans for a hope and a future. I am really hopeful that this future doesn't have renewing our paperwork a 3rd time in it :) But what ever He has planned and willed for us, He will give us the strength to accomplish.

So- good news- don't have to jump everytime the phone rings, thinking it may be about the baby- bad news- see above- (don't have to jump everytime the phone rings, thinking it may be about the baby) :)