2 Years registered with Bulgaria

Yesterday we have been registered with Bulgaria's government for 2 years, waiting for a referral. We keep hearing things are moving along, which they are compared to 3 years ago. But not many referrals are being made in America and they take off for summer and a few weeks at Christmas. I would never advertise this program as a program for healthy young children. It is like all other programs in Eastern Europe...special needs or a very long wait (more like 3 years for healthy under 3 years old). The only people who seem to be traveling from America are families who are adopting special needs, or have been waiting over 3 years. It is very discouraging. Ukraine is now only older children or special needs and Russia is way too expensive ($60,000 +). IF and this is a big IF we ever do this again I would go with Korea.

I am getting off track again!!!

So we are hoping the MOJ receives the notarized and apostilled paperwork we had to send them, yesterday, at their next meeting. When that is I don't know. I think they are meeting at the end of each week now. We are praying that we receive the referral of a special needs child that was on the moj site. Please pray with us that God moves mountains this week so we can get his referral and get travel dates. I am still praying we get to travel in February to meet him. I am torn as to whether we should go private at that time so we can share private information with friends and family (not the whole world). OR if I should stay public, as I know I have loved reading others blogs when they have traveled overseas to visit their children and pick them up. It is a difficult decision.

On another note, it is 2011 and our family is doing the radical experiment. What is that you ask, get the book and find out. RADICAL by Platt. We are praying for the world each night with our children. We use operationworld.org. They give you info on each country, demographics, and what the people need prayer for. We have prayed for Algeria, Albania and Afghanistan. We are also reading through the Bible as a family. We are listening to the book of Genesis right now on CD. As life goes on, we pray for our son in Bulgaria that God will heal his body, that he is being comforted and taken care of until we can bring him home and that we will travel soon to meet him. Looking forward to seeing what God has planned for us in 2011, and that He gives us the grace to persevere through trials, and the joy to praise Him in all things.