Tag Archives: adoption process

Three Months Waiting

Today marks three months that we have been on the waiting list. Every day we are closer to meeting our daughter! In many ways it doesn’t feel real. Chris and I have had so many conversations about what it will be like to become parents. Maya, your Mom and Dad are so excited to hold...

View full post »

We are done! Dossier is complete!

Not since announcing our plans to adopt, have I been so excited to post something. We are done with our dossier!! Yay! Hallelujah! Praise Jesus! A little over 6 months of paperwork and we are done. We received the final paper we needed on Wednesday, collected everything and made copies and sent it off on...

View full post »

Another word for blessed

I wish that there was another word for blessed. A word that isn’t so overused and thrown around flippantly. A word that would truly get my point across. A word that would fully convey my gratitude to God for choosing us. According to the dictionary, Blessed means: “endowed with divine favor and protection.” Synonyms of...

View full post »

Getting some ink

Before we started the adoption process, I can’t say that I ever expected to be getting letters from the Department of Homeland Security. How things change! We have been waiting for a couple of weeks to get our fingerprinting appointment and it arrived this week! We are so excited and so close to being finished...

View full post »

We are almost there: Notarizing

We are coming to the end of our “paper pregnancy.” We are still waiting on the official copy of our homestudy, but all of our other paperwork is collected. Chris and I have been waiting on our life insurance policies to be approved so we could get them notarized along with several other forms. Mrs....

View full post »

W h y   E t h i o p i a ?
O u r   A d o p t i o n   T i m e l i n e
T w e e t   T w e e t