I know many of you know that we lost the referral of little Sofia about a week ago. If you do not, the short version of the story is, after a necessary newspaper advertisement stating our adopting her, a brother of her late father came forward and would not sign the affidavit to continue with her adoption. We looked into fighting against him, however, after 3 meetings with the orphanage director as well as our Ugandan attorney, the family decided for us to cease proceeding with the case, due to family problems and their discrepancies with the American culture. We are so sad to not be able to proceed, yet we know we did all we could, and as hard as it is, these things just happen sometimes in international adoption. It's part of what we signed up for on this journey (as bad as it stinks).
So what does this mean now? We wait and although it will be hard not to get TOO attached to pictures, we will move forward with whatever child chooses for us (and that should be very soon). I have heard a couple of times of people losing 2 referrals, but odds are on our side that will not happen:)
Once again, it's all out of our control, just prayers for our future child, and our family as we navigate through this process.
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