67 days of waiting

In adoption – waiting is an understatement.The waiting has got to be one of the HARDEST parts of adoption! And during all the waits, you as the parent will be bombarded with:

“any new news yet?”

“So where are you at in the process?”

“Heard anything yet?”
and so on.

We understand your questions, and your anticipation.

You see, the process is very much a process full of many other processes compiled into one. Each step, brings you that much closer to your little one. However, each step brings you – days, weeks and even months of waiting for different steps to be accomplished. And normally these steps are included but aren’t limited to waiting on governments, papers sitting on desks, and the mail.

Once a paper leaves your hands, it’s out of your hands. And you pray that each important document get’s to where it needs to go, to the person who needs to see it, and to the hands that prepare the next step and so forth.

There’s a lot of paper work that is involved and much of it goes back and forth for signatures, notarization, authentication and so forth, and so forth – I guess that’s why they call it the paper chase.

The longest wait in almost any international adoption is the process to receive the officially paper work that “yes, you can officially adopt your child” That good ol’ LOA.

67 days. 67 long days of waiting and praying. That’s how long it took to receive official word that our LOA came early the morning of January 23rd 2015. We were told that it would be several days before the actual hard copy arrived at our agency. To our complete surprise – we also received the hard copy LOA that same evening!!