It's been three weeks since we have seen and held Tabitha....a very long three weeks. I feel her absence every minute of the day. I look at her pictures over and over to memorize every inch of her and I watch her videos to remember the sound of her laugh. When Eli and LJ watch her videos they cry because they want to start being big brothers to her so badly. It is very hard to live between wanting to enjoy every minute of being with Eli and LJ but also wanting so badly to fast forward to the day we bring Tabbi home.
We received an update this week that she is happy, doing well and enjoying the warmer weather and playing outside. We can't wait to take her to the park, walk around the block and push her on the swings. There are so many things to show her and teach her here.
Her I 800 immigration approval was granted on April 16 and while we are so happy to be one step closer, we are discouraged that each step we take doesn't necessarily mean we are moving things along. I continue to follow the stories of other families that have adopted from Bulgaria and there are no definite time lines that we can follow. The time between I 800 and the Article 5 could be 1 week or 4, the time between Article 5 and court could be 3 weeks or 7 and the time between court and picking her up could be 3 weeks or 8. So we still have no idea when she could be home, maybe the end of June, maybe the middle of August. I'm a little discouraged today but then I remember that according to the "usual time frame" our referral should have taken three weeks and it took one, we should have had to wait two months to travel and we waited three weeks...we weren't supposed to leave for our first trip till the middle of May. Please join us in praying that God continues to shorten every step of Tabitha's journey home. She has so much love to come home to and we all feel like we are living on pause while we wait.
Heather, I'm right there with you on the waiting pain. Our first trip was week of March 18th. The last day we saw our girl was March 21st. 5 weeks and 1 day ago. I try not to count, but I do. Praying that both of our timelines are amazingly shortened by God's grace.
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