May Blog

     Some people blog daily or weekly but not me I guess I'm the type of blogger that blog monthly. The real reason that I haven't blogged is because around the beginning of May we were updated that both the CIC investigation (Canadian government) and the accreditation process (South African government) are still not finished. The CIC will give another update in mid July to say that they are either done their investigation or still investigating. I also don't really know what they are investigating? We have been told that its just routine, to make sure that everything is happening properly. The accreditation process our agency and many, many others are waiting for social workers to be approved to work under the new laws and regulations that South Africa has put into place. I just hope and pray that these governments can get things moving and children that are getting older can be placed with their forever families.
     Not only are we waiting on these 2 things now some of our paper work such as criminal record checks and others have reached the 1 year mark. (expired) So we have to update these things but I'm waiting a bit because nothing can happen until mid-July anyways. So tough knowing that we started this journey over a year ago. I really did think that we would have our child/children home this summer to be able to watch them play in the lake with KK and Jumping Jack.
    We have been keeping busy and that does help pass the time. Jumping Jack is almost finished with dance competitions now just the recital left. KK just can't wait to get the camper out and go camping. The trees in our yard are flowering now they smell and look gorgeous! The weather is getting nicer and I will start planting flowers and veggies soon. Almost to the last month of school that means kindergrad, field trips and fun. So I'm sure June will fly by. Please continue to pray that these governments can get there stuff done quickly so that children can be brought home to their forever families. Check out our Cake Pop page http://www.facebook.com/treatsforafricacakepops all money from sales goes towards our adoption. Love Dilly

No News

        It is really hard living your life but still always wondering and waiting if you are going to get the "call". We are on holidays right now making amazing memories with our family. We have been to Disneyland, California Adventure Park, Lego Land, and now enjoying the gorgeous phoenix sun. It is great that we get to have these experiences and it does take my mind off of the lack of news in our adoption.

       The hardest thing for me right now is planning and thinking "will we have a new addition by" ... the end of June. Will it be by the end of summer? Will it be by October? uggh I hope so, October is 6 months away... can I wait that long or possible even longer? So many questions and no answer. The blogs I read, the message boards, the adoption agency have no news. It is hard not knowing.

    Please pray for the Governments involved to get the paperwork done and allow adoption to start flowing. Thank you for you prayers and support, Love Dilly