Friday, July 23, 2010

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.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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!