After going to church today and seeing many people at Braden's basketball tournament this weekend I realized that some of you are waiting for an update as to where our case stands at the US Embassy in Ghana right now. Truthfully, we have absolutely no idea. We know that Emmanuella's birth mother did go to the Embassy on Thursday and was interviewed, so that was amazing that they were able to track her down and she agreed to come so quickly. After the interview was over, the officer handed our POA a slip of some sort that said he would be contacted. I spent all day on Friday trying to get clarification of what that slip meant and no one, either at the US Embassy or Bethany, answered my emails with any specifics. So, we have no idea if the "investigation" that they were doing to confirm E's status as an orphan is completed after speaking with her birth mom or if the interview raised more questions and concerns and the US Embassy is going to continue the investigation for several more weeks or months. We are completely frustrated at the lack of communication with our own government right now. We will try again tomorrow.
While this is so frustrating and doesn't seem to make much sense to us, I really have felt peace the last few days. I truly believe that I had not fully prepared myself as well as I could have (mentally) to be bringing her home last week. I was also questioning if we had prepared our 3 bio kids as well as we could have for the little "tornado" that will be hitting our house when she arrives. I feel like when I do go back for her that I now have a better handle on it and I have realized that I am going to need to find a whole lot more patience for many things with her and around the house. I get it Lord, lesson learned. Now I'm ready to go back for her. :)
So, that's it. Nothing much to report. Hopefully we will get some answers in the next few days.
Robin
