Hard decision

After several months of Arturs trying to decide about the adoption a decision has been made. Due to the fact that he has developed a realationship with his birth mother and she does not want him to leave Latvia, we have stopped the adoption process. This was a very difficult decision to make. We discuss it several times with Arturs and tried to make it clear to him that once we stop the process we will not be able to begin it again because he will turn 16 in December and we will not be able to adopt him after that.

Our plans are to stay in touch with him and hopefully have him visit us when he can. Our desire was to do whatever God had planned for us & for Arturs. Maybe the plan was to reunite him with his birth mother...we may never know but we do know that Arturs is a very special young man and we hope that we can be apart of his life from now on.