Our First Update After Turning Our Home Study Over to India

**This was written a week ago but I wanted to make sure I added everyone before resuming...


I know that it has been a while since I have written. At first I was slammed with dossier paperwork and now I have a cold.

A cold!

I never get colds but, of course, in the midst of a very hopeful, stressful week I get a cold.

Anyway, over the past few months our family life has been peaceful, fun, and dare I say... normal. Miles is doing so fantastically well that I have been afraid to update everyone as I feared jinxing our fortune.

Our old Miles is back!!!

No more depression. No more sadness. No more tantrums. Praise God! I can not explain what a relief it is to see the spirit back in him. We know that this sudden change does not mean that he will never steep into another bout of depression but it is proof that he now has the tools to find his way out. As most thing in life are, his sadness is a phase that can be phased out.

Relief has set in and the adoption is back on track.

We have moved forward in the process and our home study has been approved by the US. We are now registered on CARINGS, the list of India's waiting children and, according to our case worker CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) stated that we should be approved before or on April 10th. From there we wait to be matched.

This is where we need prayers.

We are prusuing a certain little girl and we are at risk of missing her on CARINGS if India does not approve us in time. It is difficult to put your future and your hopefully-soon-to-be-child's future in the hands of another country and an agency that you have only know for a few months. Please pray that we are approved to be matched quickly, and our case worker's diligence pays off and that she finds our 'Petal'. Pray that everything continues to go smoothly and that we receive the next four approvals we need before court in the recommended four month period (unrealistic expectation, I know!)  and that this process does not drag on for years.                

I look forward to updating everyone soon and hopefully that update will be of a match!

***Update from the time this blog post was originally written:

Miles has graduated therapy! We went out to celebrate his last session and, of course, he choose Brewery Bar like a good Amann.

Tacos are always the answer.