I have a good feeling....

Good morning!

LSS has recommended that we dual list with ICBF (govt run orphange)and Los Pisingos (private)to cover all of our bases. So...we've just completed our dossier for ICBF and I sent of the copies for LSS to review for any changes. After they've been approved we can send them off to COLOMBIA!

I called our LSS rep yesterday with a few questions and I decided to be brave and ask where our LP application was in the pile. You may be wondering why I said brave... I feel like having too much info can be harmful. I know, weird but we don't have any control over the process anyway. Things could change on a dime so really what's the difference? It makes me too anxious. Anyway...She told me that right now LP has 3 dossiers in front of the referral committee. There is one more dossier "in cue" and we are one of the next 4 families to get their dossier ready to go! She actually had a call into the in-country coordinator to see if we should start compiling our documents when I called! So, we should get a phone call with an update soon. The dossier documents only stay valid in Colombia for 6 mos. LSS likes to hold off so our documents don't expire and we would have to update them all again. We know of MANY families that were caught up in this slow down that have had to update their dossiers 3 times so it can be a real bummer having to keep updating that thing without any movement and no referral!

We joke about being on "the list that doesn't exist" because the referral committee does try to match families with babies so referrals don't necessarily go in order.

I guess we can officially be "cautiously optimistic"???



P.S. There are 2 families that we've been following that are in Colombia right now and are caught up in a judges strike (I think over 40 days?). One of these families have been in country for TWELVE weeks. Please pray that these families get home PRONTO.

Thanks
Smooch
PK