So, this week I've been a little heart-broken.
We got news that adopting boy/girl twins had an indefinite wait. (Partially my fault for assuming, but I also thought that waiting a "little longer" meant a few months and not a few years.) It turns out that Radu, the man who oversees matches in the orphanages our agency uses, said he has only ever seen 1 set of girl/boy twins, translating to years of waiting... IF we were the first in line to request this. Twins, boy/boy or girl/girl, would be about 18+ months for a referral (which doesn't include travel or the wait time for processing the visa and all legal matters).
So- no twins for us, unless we decide that is the only way we'll go. And it isn't.
Right now, we are deciding between adopting 2 unrelated children (approx 6-8 month wait for a referral... although one can never be sure) or going back to our original plan to adopt 1 child.
I know we'll make the right decision. Thanks for your thoughts.
Luckily, my husband knows how to cheer me up by delivering these beautiful flowers to my work by sis Sari at Ladybird Poppy:
Cute, huh?
We got news that adopting boy/girl twins had an indefinite wait. (Partially my fault for assuming, but I also thought that waiting a "little longer" meant a few months and not a few years.) It turns out that Radu, the man who oversees matches in the orphanages our agency uses, said he has only ever seen 1 set of girl/boy twins, translating to years of waiting... IF we were the first in line to request this. Twins, boy/boy or girl/girl, would be about 18+ months for a referral (which doesn't include travel or the wait time for processing the visa and all legal matters).
So- no twins for us, unless we decide that is the only way we'll go. And it isn't.
Right now, we are deciding between adopting 2 unrelated children (approx 6-8 month wait for a referral... although one can never be sure) or going back to our original plan to adopt 1 child.
I know we'll make the right decision. Thanks for your thoughts.
Luckily, my husband knows how to cheer me up by delivering these beautiful flowers to my work by sis Sari at Ladybird Poppy:
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