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| No news is better than bad news, isn't it?!?. |
Date Posted: 01-31-2005 at 04:08 PM |
| I've been holding off my journal entry in hopes that I would have something great to say about my lawyer's visit to the mother in prison.... it is long past due as the visit was suposed to happen last week, but still no word. I just gotta keep praying that something happens I guess. I am a little disapointed to have found out on Saturday that our homestudy will take another month for the writing part (Saturday was our last home visit)then need to be approved by the main agency, then us, then all the steps of bureaucracy of notarizing, certifying at the Department of State in Atlanta and authenticating it at the Honduran consulate. I had hoped that we could have it all done for our hopeful trip in March, but it doesn't look like it is going to happen. On a good note, most of the other paperwork is well on its way to being collected and prepared, and some of it is already Notarized and certified too. Please send all the prayer and good vibes our direction that things work out with the mother giving us permission to adopt. We assume that that will make the whole process easier and shorter. Stefanie |
| YAY! GREAT news. |
Date Posted: 02-03-2005 at 09:48 AM |
| I am really happy because Tuesday I got to speak with Astrid and Joselyn on the phone for an extended period. Astrid had a chance to ask me some questions after a bit of chatting, and Joselyn was her usual self, she had lots of questions about people and things (but not the adoption- Astrid explains everything to her afterwards.) I got to explain to them both where we stand in the process right now, because I like to keep them up to date. I also decided to call my lawyer in Honduras. It was long past the supposed deadline to hear SOMETHING about her visit with the mother, so I was sick of waiting to hear through my agency via the other lawyer what was happening in Honduras. I spoke with Maria Elena (my 2nd lawyer, the one who is in Honduras) for the first time. She was very friendly and well informed about the case EXCEPT for many of the specific details that I had passed to her through my agency via the other lawyer. But we quickly got that straightened out. She also realized that I am not waiting for the OFFICIAL documents from the mother to be finished, but just to know whether she is saying yes to the adoption or not. She thought we had already heard a yes from the mother (haven't. we were waiting for our lawyer to do it as the social worker advised in November) and then said she'd do it for us over the next few days! YAY! A small promise from her that we will hear something from her! I am waiting with fingers crossed and prayers said that she keep her promise and things will go smoothly. Yesterday I heard that a Michigan family is interested in adopting 3 of the other girls at the orphanage. So if that works out, and the other adoption of 2 others to Texas, my girls will have 5 "sisters" from Honduras to visit here in the United States. It makes me INCREDIBLY joyful that more of my beloved girls from Honduras have the opportunity to have a family and a home. I want the best for EVERY one of these girls but cannot bring them all. So... I am very happy that things seem to be moving along on many fronts for many people. |
| It just gets better, good news for us! |
Date Posted: 02-04-2005 at 08:05 AM |
| Yesterday I found out that a friend who is adopting 2 other sisters from the same orphanage has been approved by the agency that oversees Honduran adoptions to adopt her girls. She still has a long process ahead of her with the Honduran court system and US immigration, but what this approval means to both of us is that Honduras is WILLING to allow us to adopt these children we have met and selected (against their rules of adoption) from a private orphanage (also against their rules- the kids "must" be living in gov't institutions). I am walking on sunshine today because of this. I am 2 answers closer to the possibility of adopting my girls. I couldn't be happier. Please be in prayer or sending those positive vibes my way that things go well with my lawyer asking the girl's mother to surrender her rights. The lawyer is due to visit her any time now. Good news comes in 3's so I am hoping that that will be the next... hopefully today! Thanks. |
| I started a Honduras adoption email group on yahoo. |
Date Posted: 02-07-2005 at 11:41 AM |
| I've been noticing that there ARE many people out there that are working on adoptions in Honduras, but it is just difficult to find them. I started my group a few days ago, and I am SO excited because I already have 7 members (most of them NOT the people I knew about adopting already) so hopefully the group will grow even bigger quickly! It will be such a great resource to have other people you can access with one email who have either been there/done that or are doing it now! YAY! www.groups.yahoo.com/group/HondurasAdoption |
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