We have lost him

The unimaginable has happened. A paper-ready family has stepped up to adopt our beautiful boy. I just found out, via EMAIL, not an hour ago. There, I said it. It is done. He will have a family and that is all that matters. Sure, we are TOTALLY and COMPLETELY DEVASTATED that it is not to be us, but the important thing is that he will grow up loved and protected, and not wasted in some miserable institution. We love him so much and we know that God has big plans for his future.

To you, Tanner...please know that we fought very hard for you for a very long time and that we will ALWAYS love and cherish you. You will hold a special place in our hearts FOREVER.

New Paperwork requirements

Here we go again.

Changes to required paperwork for Tanner's country...the lease agreement that we worked so hard to get is now useless. We found out two days ago that the officials in Tanner's country are requiring a new, more formal document for those who rent their homes. *sigh* We are hopeful that FIL will cooperate and help us to get the document that we need, and in a timely manner.

We have already been slightly delayed in submitting our dossier due to the two week "vacation" going on now, during which Tanner's country is not accepting new dossiers. Due to the backlog that is occuring, a few of our documents will expire before we would be allowed to submit, so we are redoing those again (for the third time). We were now looking at a submission date sometime in August...with the new requirement, we just don't know.

If you have negative comments about these new developments, please keep them to yourself, as this is TOTALLY NOT OUR FAULT. We had EVERYTHING needed to go (waiting on our RR stateside helpers to approve everything), until this closure was announced and the new requirement was implemented! We are just praying that Tanner will not be sent to the institution before we can get what we need and get to him.

If you are the praying type, please pray with us that FIL will cooperate and we can get there before this happens.

Thanks for hanging in there with us, as we walk this extremely bumpy road to bring our son home!

I have the documents!!!!!!!!

Yep, you read it right...we now have all we need to go get our boy! Once these are approved by our stateside helper, we go to Harrisburg to get the apostilles (Monday or Tuesday), then mail off this BEAST of a dossier to Tanner's country!!!!!!! At that time we will be officially rematched with Tanner, and wait for a travel date.

Excuse me while I go and do the happy dance :)

Join me, won't you?

I have it!

I have the needed document! But, he "forgot" to do the notaries that go along with it! Ugh! He has promised to meet hubby at the notary this afternoon to get them done. It is four hours later...still no call to meet him. I told him I needed them today, as I want to take everything to Harrisburg tomorrow for apostilling...

Scam?

I have been receiving comments (see comments from my last post) to the effect that I may have scammed people into giving me money. These allegations are totally NOT TRUE. These comments were made by anonymous posters...not the most forthcoming people to begin with.

I know that I have not posted an update saying that I have received the needed document from FIL...I have been avoiding that, because I just HATE writing that we STILL do not have it.

You cannot understand the situation that I am in here...this man has no idea of the timeline that we are up against...he does not care to know...he will not allow us to explain things to him...cuts us off when we try...hangs up the phone...will not meet with us in person to sit down and discuss this process. This adoption is NOT a priority for him, therefore, the paperwork will be done and given to us in HIS time, not mine. There is nothing I can do to make him move any faster, and any harassment by me will only cause him to make us wait longer. I have known this man for thirty years...this is his way of controlling the situation, and he will do it for as long as he feels like it.

To my anonymous posters...sign your name to your posts so that I may contact you regarding the slander that you have posted on my blog. Do you have the guts? This situation is stressful enough without people like you over there in anonymous land making it worse.

To all of the wonderful people who support us...THANK YOU!

MONDAY

UPDATE: We will have the needed document from FIL on MONDAY, JUNE 7th! Well, that is when he said we could have it...stay tuned, on Monday I will update to let you know if he was good on his word.

Again, BIG THANKS to all who have helped make this possible! Love you all!

Tami

Just a reminder...and thanks!

I was asked to let those who donated yesterday know that since your donations were not made directly to Reece's Rainbow, but to my Paypal account, that those donations will, unfortanately, not be tax deductable. I do hope there was not any confusion, I should have made that clear...

I also want to say how grateful Ralph and I are that so many of you took time out of your day to cheer us on, post on facebook and the yahoo group, and get the word out about our need!

To those of you who contributed...you all have a special place in our hearts, and we are grateful for your gifts of love! Thank you again, for making it possible for us to quickly bring our Tanner home to his family!

With sincere love and gratitude,
Tami and Ralph