Tuesday, our coordinator got a call from the Judge's assistant and she said that, rather than meeting with her (the assistant) on Wednesday, the judge would like to meet with her in person next Monday (our Sunday night) to review our cases (us and the Nine's.)
I'm not sure if we should be nervous, or what. We are the "pioneers" of the special needs program in which our agency is partnering with Reece's Rainbow, in this region. We're the first two families to come through who are adopting kids with DS in a while, I think. There are a bunch coming soon, but we are the first. And we both have larger families than they are used to. So I think the judge is being a bit more thorough than usual.
I e-mailed our coordinator and asked if this was unusual, and her reply was,
"Hope the judge wants to see me because she needs to hear on the documents (the ones that she asked for last week) and choose the court date upon the information received and accordingly to her schedule."
Hope so, too.
HOPE SO, TOO!!!!!
We pray that we'll find good news in our inbox Monday morning.
Looks like the families who are adopting from Region 1 (see posts below) have been told that the judge needs a week to think things over. We'll keep praying for her heart to change during this time.
OH Heather, I can't imagine how hard this is to wait! I hope it will be good news....We will keep praying!!!!1
ReplyDeleteHope you know you are in our thoughts daily. Let us know as soon as you hear something...
ReplyDeleteLove finds a way,
Renee
chasing-moonlight.blogspot.com
It seems like the way the adoption world works is "Hurry up and wait." We will continue to pray for your family.
ReplyDeletePraying the Judge comes back with a positive response VERY soon.
ReplyDeleteI haven't commented in a while, our Princess has been in and out of the hospital lately so it has left me playing catch up.
ReplyDeleteYou and your family have been in my prayers. I know the pain of waiting all too well. Sometimes it can be all consuming. I read a really net blog post on coping with the wait. I will try to find it for you.
I know comfort in this matter is hard to find but always remember our Heavenly Father has his special timing. My husband and I have a prayer journal and recently I started reading it. The holiday season of 2004 I stared having the spirit prompt me that we were suppose to adopt again. Finally in January of 2005 we prayed about it and felt that YES the Lord wanted us to get started with getting our home and family ready. We were blessed to welcome a sibling group of 3 in April 2008 as foster children. Ethan-2 1/2, Isabelle-12 months & Alex-newborn. We were further blessed to finalize our adoption of all 3 in May 2010. When I read over the prayer journal I saw that we prayed about our adopting again in the month that Ethan was conceived. It still took over 3 years to even meet them and over 5 years before they were ours. But looking back, although the waiting was difficult, the timing could not have been more perfect.
((HUGS)) & Blessings.