Four weeks ago today we started the paperwork for Colombia. This process feels so much different in comparison to our paperwork with Honduras this time last year.

Last year we had no idea what we were doing. We were just treading water as we were on this huge learning curve of adoption lingo, steps in the process and the details of paperwork.

This go-around feels a lot less stressful because we kind of know what we are doing (paper-wise), but it has an air of urgency more so than last year. I just want to push through this phase in the process to the real part of waiting. See, with Honduras, we did tons of detailed paperwork and never received the satisfaction of being approved or put on a wait list, nothing that seemed like progress or a “reward” for our hard work.

I don’t know if that makes sense, but this process just feels different. We are still faithfully following where God leads and trying not to become impatient with the timeline of the process and the reality that things are (and have always been) completely out of our control!