Dossier On It's Way!!!

Guess what dear friends, dear loved ones!! We're PAPER PREGNANT!!! Our dossier; into which we have lovingly poured a year of our lives, blood (from paper cuts), sweat (over getting things done "just so" and "in time"), tears (over delayed document arrivals and completions, etc.), prayers, sleepless nights, gas money, day trips and much more; is finally on its way to Poland! The paperwork was reviewed and deemed complete and accurate by our adoption agency and is officially headed to our daughter's homeland, where we pray we will follow it sooner than later.

Most of you want to know what all that means exactly. What does the timeline look like from here? Have we been matched by Polish authorities with a little girl yet? How do you know it's a little girl? Let me answer some of these questions as succinctly as possible.

The timeline from here is, as we've been told, "variable"; average wait times reveal that it will be 2 months before our dossier is fully translated from English to Polish and in the right hands, from there, it could be 8-10 MORE months before we are matched and given a referral to consider. That being said, our God is a God of miracles, a God of love and justice, a God of mercy and goodness. He sees our family and He sees our daughter; He knows exactly when we should be brought together as a forever family. We pray that He will move both heaven and earth to bring her home to us as soon as possible, trusting His timing completely. My heart prays that He will, with great excitement and pleasure, complete the translation and matching in record time, blowing us all away, but we'll watch and we'll pray. (That wasn't very succinct, was it? Oops.) Next, as I have basically already answered, we have not been matched with a specific little girl by Polish authorities. We have, however, been matched with a specific little girl by her Maker; He has known she was ours from before she was born just as He knows the date and time I will hold her in my arms for the very first time, never ever wanting to let go. Finally, we are assuming we are bringing a little girl home because that has been the desire God has placed in each of our hearts from the start and we have requested a girl. That does not mean the child we bring home will definitely be a girl, but that is what we are planning for. It's fun that way; kind of like being pregnant... they tell you girl when they read the ultrasound and then... "SURPRISE!!! Oops.... we THOUGHT it was a little girl. Hmmmmm." and you love him to pieces anyway. ;-)

That's all for tonight. I think. if I have time, I will write tomorrow about the sacred echo ringing in my head and my heart through a beautiful song that seems to come on the radio EVERY time I happen to be in my car recently. Love you all and thank you so much for your prayer and financial support!