Our Appointment at the NAC

Hello Everyone! We know you all have been waiting and wondering how we made out at the National Adoption Center today. We arrived at the NAC earlier than our scheduled appointment and had to wait until it was our turn to go in to the office. We went into the Scooby Doo like hallway (long hallway with lots of closed doors..not knowing who will appear out of what door next) and waited some more time until it was our turn.



When we finally were asked to come into the psychologists’ office we met with a young woman that asked to see our invitation letter that they sent to us and our family album. We also gave her a picture of 2 previously adopted children from Ukraine that we know and lives near us. She seem to favor that we are in touch and live near another family that has young adopted children from Ukraine and that they look very happy and well adjusted. She then asked us how many children we were looking for and we said 2. As soon as I said two and held up 2 fingers, she responded 3? I said no two children, preferably under the ages of 7 years old. Alla, our translator, spoke to her in Russian and we were shown some loose files first that were sitting on the window sill. When we went through them we selected a few files of sibling groups of 2 and sibling groups of 3 for the psychologist to call the orphanages to find out if they are definitely available. Even though the childrens’ files are in the books at the NAC, if a relative is still visiting them, then they are not on the availability list, unless the relative is willing to sign off for them to be adopted. We did not have any more time since other couples were waiting to meet with them as well, however, the favor of God was certainly going forth on our behalf. We were actually given a great deal more time that was allotted for looking through the files of children and I had the strength of the Lord today meaning I wasn't emotional and Alla was working hard at persuading the pschologist to give us more time to look. Your prayers are certainly going forth on our behalf. We appreciate them all. Keep them coming our way.



We will meet with the NAC tomorrow around 11:30am again to hear the results and select from those files she called about today. If we select a sibling group of 3 children we would need to get another approval from the INS and an addendum from our home study agency in America to allow us to bring 3 children back into the states. We contacted INS and our home study agency today (Thanks to the help of Mama Sherry-OOH you know Mom how thankful we are for all your help today!) to see if and how long it would take to get an updated approval and what is the process to do so. They said it shouldn’t take but more than a weeks time to get it all updated. So to answer you question, Yes we are possibly thinking of adopting 3….yes I said 3 children. And, No we are not crazy! We’ll be Just ONE BIG HAPPY BLESSED FAMILY!!! From there we will select one of the sibling groups and go to visit them. Until then, please pray and be in agreement with us that these sibling groups are available so we can proceed forward with our adoption.



Robert and I wanted to wish my brother David and our brother in-law Billy a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!! We love you both and hope your birthday was a happy one.