Waiting If there was a single word to sum up July 2019 on our adoption journey it was this: WAITING! It felt like the doldrums of the dog days of summer. Every day we worked on another grant application or another piece of education or another step in remodeling our garage to expand for more kids. Every day it felt that we were no closer than we had been the previous day. Three times we heard back from one particular grant agency ... "we have you scheduled for review." But after we updated our info and we were still waiting for our Dossier to be approved by CEJAI, the response "you have been rescheduled." After the first set of our Dossier had been translated and submitted in very early July, I had hoped that we would hear back from Brazil that we had been approved by mid-August and then; possibly, that we had been matched by September. Great News! Yesterday (Aug 16) we got a phone call from the Help Us Adopt grant agency. They were pleased to tell us that ...