Adoption Update: More tests on 12/18
Well, at least we have confirmation of the "next step" before us. On the 18th of this month all of us will head over to an agency in town that the court is using to test us. The document we received stated that we should be prepared for 4-5 hours of "fun" (my word, not theirs). And yes, again, this will involve all of us -- even Maciek.
We had another meeting with the psychologist that visits every now and then to see how things are going here at home with the kids. She basically sits and tries to come up with interesting questions for an hour or so (this time it was 1.5 hours). She talked to us a little bit about what to expect on the 18th and honestly it sounds pretty daunting...group interviews, personal interviews, tests (I about cried to hear that). We're also pretty psyched that it will all be in Polish. NOT!
This is all pretty strange seeing as though foreigners don't go through any of this. It's as though we've gone through the entire foreign adoption process...which turned out to not be enough for the Warsaw agency for whatever reason unbeknownst to anyone else involved...and now we're forced to go through the domestic adoption process.
I know you're going to want to know what's next. Me too. The pieces of info we have been given tell us that (1) we will have to wait -- possibly up to a month -- for this agency to prepare their opinion of us and then (2) have to await the next word from the court. The judge could simply schedule the final hearing, providing that the opinion of the agency is good, and finalize the adoption (would probably happen sometime in February). OR he could want even more information or whatever. It's so hard to say.
Be praying for all of us. The 18th is not going to be an exciting day at all...rather pretty stressful for each of the 5 of us. Thankfully my mom will be here which will help tremendously to offset some of that stress as we get to spend some quality time with her.
I'll post more when I know more. Thanks for continuing to pray with us as this drama is ever-evolving!
We had another meeting with the psychologist that visits every now and then to see how things are going here at home with the kids. She basically sits and tries to come up with interesting questions for an hour or so (this time it was 1.5 hours). She talked to us a little bit about what to expect on the 18th and honestly it sounds pretty daunting...group interviews, personal interviews, tests (I about cried to hear that). We're also pretty psyched that it will all be in Polish. NOT!
This is all pretty strange seeing as though foreigners don't go through any of this. It's as though we've gone through the entire foreign adoption process...which turned out to not be enough for the Warsaw agency for whatever reason unbeknownst to anyone else involved...and now we're forced to go through the domestic adoption process.
I know you're going to want to know what's next. Me too. The pieces of info we have been given tell us that (1) we will have to wait -- possibly up to a month -- for this agency to prepare their opinion of us and then (2) have to await the next word from the court. The judge could simply schedule the final hearing, providing that the opinion of the agency is good, and finalize the adoption (would probably happen sometime in February). OR he could want even more information or whatever. It's so hard to say.
Be praying for all of us. The 18th is not going to be an exciting day at all...rather pretty stressful for each of the 5 of us. Thankfully my mom will be here which will help tremendously to offset some of that stress as we get to spend some quality time with her.
I'll post more when I know more. Thanks for continuing to pray with us as this drama is ever-evolving!
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