Sunday we spent our day in Old Riga again. We got up early and went to a beautiful church for services. Granted it was ALL in Russian, but that did not matter, it was beautiful. In the church everyone stood, and it was very formal. Women had their heads covered and men could not even put their hands in their pockets. I so wanted to take pictures of the walls and ceiling as they were wonderful, but no cameras allowed during service.
We then went back to the apartment to change and eat. Then we headed to the paddle boats. I waited while the men had fun on the river. To see the joy on our sons face just being on the paddle boat was so wonderful.
Monday it rained so we decided to stay in and hang out. D does not like to go all the time anyway, so we told him on rainy days wed stay in. (we walk everywhere so its a good idea anyway.) We even FINALLY got his middle name decided on. We have been talking about this since last summer, and he could never make a decision. Ill reveal it after court on Friday.
Monday it literally rained on our adoption. Being fair to him, I will not go into details here, but we would appreciate prayers. There is something happening here that could stop this completely right now. That is not what we want or what he wants, but we have absolutely no control over this. It has put a huge cloud over everything, waiting for the phone to ring and them to tell us he has to go back to foster home and we have to wait more. If this thing happened, we think in the end we will still be able to adopt him, but wed have to wait many more months, and hed not be able to come to
We have social worker visit on Wednesday and court on Friday. On Friday the plan is they will grant us the right to take him home and continue bonding with him while we finish up more American paperwork and then wed come back in a few months for the 2nd out of 3 trips. We are hoping if we make it through court on Friday and they grant us the right to bring him home, then even if this thing happened, they will still let us have him while theyd sort this issue out in court (if it comes to that.)
We really just do not know. All we can do is pray. We believe the Lord has brought us here, to this child, at this time, knowing the outcome. All we can do is trust Him that He sees the whole picture, we do not. Does that mean its easy? Nope, but none of this process has been easy, except for one thing. That one thing that has been easy is loving our son. In our hearts he is ours, even if we do not have a piece of paper showing this, yet .