Our first visit was to the city social worker. She was very, very nice and hardly asked us any questions (no grilling). We showed her photos of Elijah and our family and that was about it. Unfortunately, she will be out of the office the next 3 days. She was very apologetic, but had already made plans before she knew we were coming and couldn't change them. I'm not sure I totally understand how all the paperwork works, even though Vanya explained it to me more than once. But once we get the paperwork from her that was not able to be completed today, and won't be ready until Monday, it then has to be submitted to the SDA in the capital city and then come back to our region for court. There is a 5 day turn around there, so the absolute earliest we can have our court date is Monday, June 27th. Not as early as we would have hoped for, but there is nothing we can do about it. Vanya is doing all he can to get us in for court on that day. To make things a bit more complicated, the train that used to run 3x/day to this city will only be running 3x/week starting tomorrow due to track repairs. The facilitators use the train to send documents back and forth. So, please be in prayer that everything will fall into place with papers getting here and there, and we can have court on the 27th, and get back to the capital city ASAP afterwards to get home to see our kids. We miss them SOO much!
Let's see...what else...we had our 4 applications done at the notary today. They were an application to the court, appl for a new birth certificate for Jonathan, appl for his passport, and one other thing that escapes me at the moment - maybe for the SDA. So, tomorrow, Vanya will get the paperwork from the orphanage (hopefully) and go to the courthouse to start the process of securing our court date. We'll bring in all of the cloth diapers that were donated too! (I need to do another post about the incredible generosity we received in donations.) We got some ointment and drops for Jonathan's eye too, so hopefully that will help him.
Guess that's about it. Vanya was with us for our visit with Jonathan today and took a photo of the 3 of us, but I'm too
Thanks for all of your prayers! Please pray for my continued recovery and for all of the kids and caregivers back home. Love to you all!
4 comments:
Feel better! Why does everyone seem to get tummy sick while in-country!? I see that all the time. Eating "different" (yeah, lets call it that - LOL!) food than what you are used to maybe? At any rate, I hope you're on the up-and-up now at that the rest of the paperchasing goes smoothly.
Lydia
as shea would say..."oy!" just what you need.... paper delays and sickies... lord please give the documents wings...and restore jill to full strength...(and all us mommies who are going through so much right now) Keep our bodies strong and our families protected by angels during this time when evil would like to conquer....but never will! Amen...
So sorry about the bad tummy! Praying you are feeling better. Also, praying for the paperwork chase that is all falls into place and court happens asap!
I'm with you on not know what all the paperwork is for even after having been told! I had quite the day today too.
Hoping you are feeling better. Will be praying that your process can go as quick as possible in light of all the delays.
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