The Hiestand Family’s Adoption Journey |

This is hard!

07.05.2006 /

We are still waiting on documents that are supposed to come back to us. Todd’s employment letter has to be sent back to us and then we have to send it to the consulate in Miami, and we are waiting on all our other documents to come back from NY. I hate the idea of all those important documents just being out there in someone else’s hands. It’s hard not knowing what is happening to them. I have this horrible thought of someone drinking coffee while looking through them, and them spilling it all over them. UGH! And I tried calling USCIS today to check on the status of the home study and our 171H, and just got an answering machine. This is the biggest test of patience and trust I have ever had to face! And I’m thinking it’s going to get worse after I see a picture of our little guy. I don’t know how I’m going to be able to stand it! If anyone has any great words of wisdom on how to get through this waiting part (which I don’t think we have even officially entered yet), please pass them on!
I did have a couple positive things happen today… One of my friends who is a nurse was talking to another nurse and found out that she is also adopting from Guatemala. She gave my friend her email to give to me, and told her if I ever had any questions or just wanted to chat about our experiences I could contact her. I have really been thinking I would like to talk to someone in my area who is adopting from Guatemala to see what kind of time frame they have experienced, so that is very cool that I can chat with her now. And I was talking with a friend of a friend tonight and she said she just got back from being in Guatemala for a month studying. I talked to her a little about the country and the people and she said she would give us info. if we were planning on site seeing a little while we were there. So, a couple encouraging things. I know that God is going to work everything out in His timing, I just wish it was a little quicker. :o)