Things really are moving!

So following blogs is an obsession when you're adopting. I know of at least one family whose dossier is in the 70's and they are being reviewed right now. Amazing. Awesome. The ministry is moving at a lightening fast pace. I love it!

DTR 5 Months

So our dossier has been in Rwanda for 5 months now. Nothing exciting happening (that I know of) in the Ministry. We should hear from our agency next month about any updates they have. They have someone there now and someone going in March as well. I did see on another blog that the Ministry is up to #55 on dossiers. It's good news that everything is still moving.

In other news, I had an appointment with my neuropthomologist today and I only have one more drug to try (Namenda) before I can have surgery on my left eye. Yeah! I will start the medication tomorrow and be on it for 4 weeks (if I tolerate it which I probably won't) and then, since everyone knows it won't work (EVERYONE KNOWS THIS), I have a f/u scheduled with Dr. Wallace on 4/4 for a pre-op exam. I'm so excited. I've never been so excited to have surgery before but this is HUGE! It's a possibility the surgery won't work but it's a better possibility it will work and I will be eye patch/blacked out contact free and when we travel to Rwanda I won't be questioned by every person why I wear an eye patch, what's under the eye patch, etc. I'm so excited. SO EXCITED. I just have to get through this one last medication and whatever side effect(s) it throws my way. yeah!

Up to #40 on dossier approvals

In the monthly conference call with our agency on Tuesday there wasn't any news for our agency to report. Fairly depressing call. Adoption in Rwanda has picked up slightly but not much. There have been a few approvals that have gone out in the past couple weeks. One of the other prospective adoptive parents stated she knew a family whose dossier was #40 that received approval from Rwanda recently. #40 is the highest number anyone has heard of that's been approved. That's good news but unfortunately it doesn't sound as if anyone who has gotten a recent (within the past few months) approval has received a referral. So we will wait and pray. I don't know if there's any hope we will be adopting this year or not but that, of course, is up to God.  

Adoption

So I'm really not a blogger but this seems the easiest way to keep all our family and friends updated on adoption goings on. With that said, nothing is going on right now and probably won't be for a long while. We found out in October that we are #144 in line for our dossier to be approved by the Rwandan government. We appreciate that the government is looking at every dossier closely but it's very slow going for those of us that are waiting to be approved. We heard from our agency that they were in the 30's the 3rd week of December. No one knows how quickly they will be going through the dossiers yet, we'll just have to wait and see. Lots and lots of waiting with adoption.