It has been 15 days since our approval, and we are starting to prepare for the ellusive, unknown date when we may hear news of a child being matched with us! We have been asked by our adoption agency to have our annual review meeting with our social worker. This is when they review the information and our situation, 1 year after our panel date (June). We will meet at our home to chat about any changes, concerns and how we are doing with 'The Wait'!

Also we have bought a few little items!

Some stacking cups, which apparently travel well and entertain for hours! (too good to be true?) and a Spanish language course to brush up a little. May be good to have some key phrases!!

Patiently,

x

We had a great week away and came back to this e-mail:

Hola dear Catherine & Luke,

yes, you were declared suitable to adopt!!!, congratulations.

What you have to do now is to wait; you Catherine are pregnant, and you Luke have to spoil Catherine; you have to wait and wait, I do not know if nine months or more. Be very patient and pray, or pray and be very patient.

Congratulations again,

Oh my goodness!!

Was that quick?! That took exactly one month. We were expecting to wait a longer time to hear. This means they have decided we are suitable, and are now officially waiting!! Yes more waiting, but now for the Peruvian authorities to match us with a child. This is a big step and we are so grateful to God for guiding us this far.

Many have asked us what the wait time will be and we really don't know. All we have to go on is what other families have experienced, but as these are from other countries where many people adopt from Peru, we are not sure how things will work for the UK, as we only have three families adopting. Some it has been about 1 year, others nearly 3 years. Now we are this far, I will do some more research into this and let you know what I find!!

Thank you all who prayed. God is slowly revealing His plan for us, and we look forward with hope...

Well we go on our break tomorrow and no news yet. Think we were a bit optimistic thinking we would hear so soon! At this point we don't feel worried about hearing if we are accepted or not, God has got us this far and will get us through the next step too!

We are really looking forward to our break and are glad to have a paperwork/e-mail free week! We plan to sight see, relax and eat! Hopefully will be able to post some good news soon, but could be a while yet- must be realistic!! Thanks for your ongoing support and prayers!

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