Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What to do now

Hi friends and family. This is my very first blog. I'll share a little bit about our situation. In May 2008 Barry and I decided to adopt. Yes we do already have 4 children but feel like we have so much left to give. I researched and researched and decided on an agency that looked strong and a country. We decided on Ethiopia and went to work getting all the documentation needed for this. Talk about hoops to jump through. A couple of months after our decision we switched our country to Ghana. Our agency had just started a new program with many promises of a quick smooth adoption. We continued to work towards finishing all the paperwork and aproval. In Dec. of 2008 our dossier (paperwork) arrived in Ghan and so the wait began. We joined a network of other parents adopting from ghana and started hearing about referals . We continued to wait. The referals stopped and no court dates were set for those that did have referals. In the meantime we fell in love with a beautiful 3 yr old online and put in a request to the orphanage to adopt her. Soon we found that all was not well with the orphanage and the agency. Adoptions were halted because of false allegations against the orphanage. The orphanage director worked hard to set things straight but it was no use. During this time (unknown to us) the agency was having its own issues. We found out in July 2009 that Imagine agency had declared bankruptcy and all our money had disappeared. Over the next few months people worked hard to restructure Imagine and get it up and running. In Sept. we found out that indeed Imagine would be able to run again but with extra costs to those families adopting. Unfortunately, I found out 2 days ago that Ghana would not be part of this. I decided to start this blog to keep everyone up to date on what happens next for our family and to share my frustrations. Pray for our family as we have some decisions to make. Do we continue on with Imagine? Do we try to adopt locally? Do we completely give up on the little girl from Ghana? Some of these decisions need to be made in the next few weeks. Help

2 comments:

Jess said...

None of the decisions we are now forced to make are easy. I am praying...
Glad to see you started a blog! :)

Anonymous said...

We did the same thing - thought we would go with Ethiopia, then changed our minds, and are now looking at that route again...full circle, it seems.