July 25,2018

Emotional Roller Coaster

Our journey toward adopting sweet Jameson into our family has been an emotional roller coaster at times! It seems every high moment comes with a splash of reality which typically slows the process.

We thought our court date in Burundi had either already occurred or would be occurring any day now. Unfortunately, we received an email from our social worker stating our court date is currently scheduled for October. Our first reaction was- Are you kidding us? We were quickly grounded by a subtle reminder, this entire process to date has not gone as "planned." We've found God's unique timing to be perfect. Pierre, our social worker in Burundi, will be negotiating to move our court date sooner but there are certainly no guarantees. We want to note, several families received this news. Please continue to pray for all families currently adopting from Burundi as we accept God's perfect timing. 

What does this mean for travel? 

Once our court date occurs, we'll be waiting on our adoption decree. The adoption decree can take anywhere from one to two months. Then we'll wait for an invitation from Burundi to travel!!! Typically, this arrives 40 days after the adoption decree. We originally thought we'd be traveling between October and December of 2018. If our court date doesn't occur until October, then we'll realistically be looking to travel in January or February. Not only would Jameson not be home for the holidays, there would be a high likelihood we'd have to pay to update our home-study again. The irony behind this "set back" is no matter what Jameson is our son and WILL be coming home! We'll just have to continue to hurry up and wait!!!!!!!!!

T-Shirt Campaign:

Thank you to everyone who ordered a T-Shirt. Ours arrived today and WOW are they soft!!!! Remember, we want to collect pictures of everyone wearing their shirts!!! We want to show Jameson how loved he is! A few people ordered shirts after the deadline, so another campaign opened! If you know anyone that missed out and wanted to order, they have 11 days! The link below works: 

Order a T-Shirt

Jim and I appreciate each and everyone of you! Without you, the past three years of waiting would have been torturous! 

                                         LOVE,

                                     Jim and Kelly