Tag Archives: America World Adoption

Do your research. {Choosing an adoption agency}

If you are thinking of adopting whether domestically or internationally, please, please, please do your research. With all the news/controversy floating around about possible changes in the Ethiopian adoption process, questions about how ethical Ethiopian adoptions have been posed. There have been posts about adoption opening the door to child trafficking, agencies stealing babies, etc....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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