Dear Santa...........

....All I want for Christmas is a REFERRAL wrapped in a Blue Bow!

Fingerprint Day...........Again!

Today Jon and I drove to Detroit to be re-printed for our I-171H renewal. On the way home, we were listening to Paul Harvey (I know, I'm so square!). He said that changes have begun in Washington. Heads are beginning to roll. The first to go was the head of INS. As Mr. Harvey put it, this is the person in charge of immigration and deportation! Maybe this will be the first of many changes that will help us bring our baby boy home! Only GOD knows.

More Paperwork.......An Exercise in Futility?

Well, we were down to the wire on our I-171H. Should we re-new it or not? After some thought, we decided that we might as well, since we get a one-time free renewal. So we made it in the nick of time. Just before it expired! Now we get to go to Detroit again to be fingerprinted on November 6th. Hopefully our new I-171H won't expire before we get to finish this adoption.

Faith

I do not know the reason, or even begin to understand the whys. But I do know that I have put my trust in the Lord and whatever HE has planned for our family, I will accept.

A New Day......A New Disappointment

Today, it became 'official' that the US Dept. of State and the Dept. of International Adoptions in Vietnam have decided that there will be no Special Needs adoptions processed after September 1st. So the country of Vietnam is now completely CLOSED for international adoptions to the United States until an agreement can be reached between the two countries.

Where does this leave us? At the head of the line as the doors slam shut in our faces. I do not know what to think or what to feel. I am angry because I thought that our government was on our side, that they were working for us. We elected them, we pay their exorbitant salaries. Silly me.

As more and more obstacles are thrown in my path, I become more determined than ever that someday, somehow, I WILL bring our child home from Vietnam.