Just an update, our psychological report was completed and sent to us this week, so we are just waiting on our medical paperwork. We will meet with our notary this week, and get everything ready to be sent to the embassy and consulate, before sending it to Peru. Our lawyer there has also asked for more photos, so we will print those too! Can we say it yet....nearly there?!

When we got an e-mail on Wednesday 20th January from Peru, our lawyer wrote casually:

Yes, your paper are in SNA.

That means our papers are officially with the government in Peru!! Not sure what day this happened, but at least we know they are in! (That's great because it means we don't have to redo our x-rays or blood tests that run out after only 3 months!)

We have met with our notary in the UK ready to authenticate our extra documents, and now are just waiting for our doctor to complete our medicals, and our psychologist to send us her report. We have made an appointment to visit the notary on Thursday, but we are not sure if we will have all the papers by then. Might have to re-schedule.

We are really looking forward to getting this done now! Looking forward to the day when we can relax a bit, and let go of rushing about collecting evidence every weekend and making phone calls in our lunch breaks! Will the paperwork ever end?! Including the home study, we have been collecting and completing paperwork for over a year now- phew! Nearly there?

We met with the psychologist for the last time last night. We are glad that is done! We had more questions and forms, this time about our relationship. Once again we had to laugh at the questions put to us

I feel like we are on the brink of separating, I always force people to do things my way, Bad things always happen to me...

but some made us think a bit more. After a few more questions she felt happy to go and write her report, which should be done Friday and with us by Monday.
Our medical forms are with the doctors, who need to just fill it out (although we think they are going to insist on meeting with us which shouldn't be necessary!) and the sent to our agency, who will check it and send it to our notary. We are waiting to hear from our lawyer if he has handed in our papers to the SNA (Peruvian government), at which point it will feel a little more real- they will know about us then! We are about to jump through the last hoop for a while..we hope!

Thank you for your ongoing prayers,
all in His timing

Well that was weird! We met with the psychologist last night and it was pretty strange. One of us had an interview while the other completed paper tests. In the interview we had to answer questions that we have answered a LOT of times before, what led you to this point, what is your family like, how did you feel growing up...

The odd part was doing the paper tests! The statements we had to rate or say true/false to ranged from interesting to very strange:

I am friendly. I feel like smashing things right now. I like to be organised. I have flown over the Atlantic 30 times this year. I get annoyed easily. People need special skills to understand my extraordinary talents. I control my temper. I don't think my drinking or drug taking is effecting my job.

Just an example of the hundreds we had to complete!! We're not sure we would have got this far is the majority of what we read was true for us, but just another hoop to jump through! We had to laugh at the bizarre ones, but having so many questions to answer, you do start to worry that you are answering them wrong!!

We are meeting with her again next week for a joint interview, after which she will compile an extensive report which we can add to our other papers. We are waiting still for our doctors reports to be completed. We hope they understand that they are urgent and need to get sorted soon.

While talking to the psychologist I realised that even when our papers are done (again!) and sent, if we are waiting more than a year to be matched with a child, several documents will have to be renewed. I really hope we are not waiting too long as the paper chase can be quite tiring, never really feeling like you are there, finished, done, and just waiting.

Thanks to our good friends who provided us with another memento of our journey so far, a llama to celebrate our papers getting sent! Thanks xx


Will let you know when our medicals are done, or how it goes with the psychologist next week, which ever comes first!

Feliz Navidad Y Prospero Año Nuevo!

We have been in touch with the psychologist, and are meeting with her on Friday 6th at our home. She will quiz us and perform a psychological test on us. Should be interesting! Not sure how many meetings we will need with her.

The good news is that all the other papers we need are together now. We are just waiting on the health reports and the psychologist to complete her reports. The other good news is that our lawyer should be ready to present our papers to the SNA (Peruvian government) soon, he thinks the translator will be done by next week! This is very quick. That should mean we don't need to redo our x-rays or blood tests, which will save us a bit of money! We plan to get all the papers that we are doing at the moment off to our lawyer soon, by the middle of January we hope. Will let you know how it goes this week,