Where we are at with the adoption

Some have asked if there have been any developments with the adoption. This is where we are right now.

Before we left for the US on Sept 19, our social worker agreed to write an addendum to our home study, which took us many weeks before that to get her to agree to do. The agreed-upon plan was for her to email it to us before she submitted it so that we could make sure it was accurate (which is what failed to happen with the original home study, thus the numerous inaccuracies that resulted in us feeling very misrepresented).

Here we are November 1. About a week ago I called her and left a message. Then I emailed her asking about the addendum and kindly and respectfully asked her to call or email us. Nothing. It's been nearly six weeks since we've heard from her. Next week, I'll call and email her again and if I don't hear anything I'll email Holt in the US. That has caused her to act in the past.

Our original home study was submitted to the Inter-country Adoption Board of the Philippines (ICAB) on August 13th and we are told it takes 2-3 months for approval. To my knowledge, since ICAB isn't expecting an addendum, we should be expecting an approval from them any day now. Oh! It just now occured to me that perhaps our social worker knows this and perhaps once we are approved by ICAB, she will think it is pointless to write an addendum. Hmmm, interesting. I wonder about that. Or perhaps it's a better idea to submit the addendum after our approval? I'd consider dropping it if in fact they do approve us without it but there needs to be consistency between the information in our home study and the information we give to the US government. Anyway, I'm just processing this as I write. Sorry to bore you with those details.

Frankly I don't know what is best. I just pray and have to trust that the Lord is taking care of it and that if there is anything we really should be doing differently, that he is big enough to make us aware of it. I will keep doing what I can to get our social worker to come through on what she promised. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

I will say however, that once we get that approval from ICAB, we will officially be waiting for a match which means technically we could get a call at any time!