We are the proud parents of a preschool graduate this week! Oh, comments like that remind me of the movie The Incredibles, when Mr. Incredible talks about how our society celebrates mediocrity! We ARE super proud of Sydney for having such great behavior at preschool, for learning a bunch and for having such a happy attitude about school! She is so excited to be moving on to kindergarten, and she told Reid yesterday that she is happy for her to be going to preschool next year…so sweet!
The big kids have about two and a half weeks left of school (yep, it looks like we’re actually going to finish the school year in MAY rather than halfway through June!). We’re all looking forward to a break, even though they both had a fabulous school year, and are sad to leave their current teachers. I’m looking forward to working on some teacher & staff appreciation gifts with the kids over the next week or so. We’re so thankful for our kids’ school!
On the adoption front: we received a call on Monday night from the Philippines. Some contacts were made on our behalf and we finally received SOME insight and explanation as to what has been going on. For one thing, ICAB (Intercountry Adoption Board) JUST received John Mark’s paperwork a few days ago. Why it took almost a month to go from one entity to another remains unknown, and I guess it doesn’t really matter — what matters is that the paperwork has been located, which puts us back in line for his Visa/medical appointments to be scheduled. How long it will take to schedule those and how far out those will be scheduled remains unknown at this point as well, but we are PRAYERFUL that it won’t be long.
We also found out that our ICAB case worker is out on maternity leave, and since that office is already understaffed, our case was not getting any attention. Fortunately, a sweet soul named Angelie has taken over our case.
We were given a tentative 3-4 week timeline for travel. I’m putting very little no stock in that, given how many times we’ve been disappointed in these proposed timelines before! I am keeping my focus on the Lord’s timing, not on my own. My desire to hold that boy on Mother’s Day is obviously not going to happen…but I said then and I still believe that there is a reason for it. No, it doesn’t make it any easier to be ending another week, still not knowing when we’ll bring him home. But these little tidbits of information from earlier in the week have given me that umph that I needed to continue waiting…even if it’s not-so-patiently!
