Once the six months expires, these children are available to international families for adoption. This gives the child an opportunity to be adopted by outside family members or Belarusian families. In Belarus, children are put on a registry for 6 months upon admission into an orphanage. The first little girl was between three and four months old and wouldn’t be coming off the registry until October. In July we were asked to review the files of two little girls. We rushed through our home study and finished our paperwork, finally sending everything to Belarus on May 31. Through referrals from others, we were able to find a wonderful new agency to work with that would help us bring a child home from Belarus. I received numerous responses about Belarus. I posted a request asking for any information on countries only requiring one travel trip. We couldn’t believe it! Were we completely wrong in thinking the Lord was guiding us to adopt a baby girl? I spent a lot of time praying and crying.ĭuring this time, I had become involved with EEAC, an e-group for families adopting from Eastern Europe. Three weeks into that process, Cambodia’s adoption program was temporarily suspended because the INS was investigating claims of illegal adoption practices among various orphanages. Little did we know, the Lord had plans for us! After doing some research on the internet, I called our coordinator and told her we would like to pursue Cambodia. We were heartbroken! We had our hearts set on a Chinese baby girl and had even started imagining what she would look like. We began the tedious “paper chasing” only to be told by our family coordinator at the end of October that the agency was closing its China adoption program for the next year.
That was the beginning of our long journey to our daughter. He informed me that he was experiencing the same thing at work when he turned on the radio at his desk. After three weeks of hearing the commercial, I finally told my husband about these coincidences. Each time I got in the car and turned on the radio, regardless of the time of day, I heard a commercial for a certain adoption agency. I was able to find a job with a land developer in the Columbia area, and the job required that I do a lot of driving around the D.C. In June of 2001, we moved from Willmar, Minnesota to Maryland. After the birth of Aaron, my youngest, I told my husband that he would be the last child I was going to deliver and began the formidable task of raising my three very active boys. During each pregnancy, I was convinced that it was my little girl, but was told each time that I had a healthy baby boy. As the years progressed, we were blessed with three healthy boys. During our honeymoon, I had a dream about having a beautiful baby girl and just assumed that it was an sign of things to come. Our longing for a daughter began the first week we were married.
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