Our agency FINALLY got our paperwork sent to Beijing on Wednesday. It takes two days to get there so it should have arrived sometime Friday or possibly Monday. Who knows how the crazy mail delivery system works there. Once in Beijiing they will turn around and send it to Guangzhou where it will be hand-delivered to the American Embassy. This part of the process takes two weeks so depending on if it's dropped off Tuesday or Wednesday, they will go back two weeks later on the same day of the week and get our Article 5. Then it's back to Beijing to the CCCWA where it should take approximately 3 weeks to get our Travel Approval.
Once we get the TA, our agency will schedule our Consulate Appointment. Our travel dates will be determined by this date. Right now it looks as if there will be a LOT of people trying to get Consulate Appointments around the same time we will so I will not be surprised to see our travel dates get pushed back to the middle to late November:-( NO, this is NOT what I want, but what do you do?
I have to admit that right now I am tired. I don't mean just physically tired (although this is part of it), but I mean emotionally and mentally tired. There are so many things going on behind the scenes that I am choosing not to post about publicly, but we are definitely under attack. Issues that I thought had been resolved with this adoption, are now back and have become MAJOR PROBLEMS!!! Things that I am clueless about how to resolve. I am overwhelmingly sad about this:-( I have surrendered to the reality that God is the only one who can make this ok. I have tried to control it myself, but it just isn't working and so now I have laid it all at HIS FEET!!! I can't do anything else. Even though I can't spell out all the details here, I would truly appreciate your prayers. God knows what we are dealing with right now and if you would just lift up our names HE will know.
I am going to stay positive, even in this storm of life!!
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