No match for May

Unfortunately, I don't yet have good news to share about the adoption. The consejo was held on Tuesday (the last day of May) and we were not matched with Lene. This does not mean that the adoption authorities won't match us with her, it just means that it hasn't happened yet. We did find out that our family was presented at the consejo, but for reasons we don't yet know we were not given permission to adopt Lene. Our representative in Latin America is working feverishly to find out what is going on and why we were not matched. She has a meeting lined up with the National Director of Adoptions and has been told that a letter is being written for her as to what's going on with our process-- why we have completed everything asked of us, yet were not matched for May. She told me today that in all of the years that she has been involved with adoptions, she has never seen this happen. She is bewildered and doesn't understand what is going on. She is trying her best to get to the bottom of it, but must wait until after the weekend.


It could be a lot of things; they might want a medical update on Lene before agreeing to allow us to adopt her... they could require us to take some type of class that they feel would help us parent her better... they could ask us to have yet another psychological evaluation... the possibilities are endless. We are anxious to know what is going on and very much hope that next week will bring those answers.


The fact that we will not be traveling to Peru within the next six(ish) weeks means that our plans have to be altered. We now will not be taking our oldest three children with us on the trip because they will be starting school in mid-August and the timeline doesn't work out for them to come along with us. We are all very sad about that. We are trying to make plans to have a family member and a close friend of the family stay here in our home with our kids while Robby and I are in Peru for approximately 4-6 weeks. The emotions I have at the thought of leaving my children behind for that long are not pleasant ones. Yet I can't leave that beautiful little girl all the way in South America without her family. We have gone to great lengths to bring her home and we will continue to do so until she is here with us, where she belongs.

We are asking for prayer. This has been a 2+ year process and we are right at the end, but we keep getting delayed. We ask that you pray and believe with us that every heart in the adoption decision making process would be 100% for Lene coming into our family. Please stand with us that there will be no more delays. We continue to stand on the Lord's promises and wait for their fruition. 

 As soon as I know more, I will update here.