Our agency, America World Adoption, just completed an update to their website. They added a section with links to several families adoption blogs and we are one of those families! How cool is that?! Apparently our little blog has sent quite a bit to traffic to their website. Below is a picture of what the...
Dear Africa, I haven’t yet set my foot on your soil, but you have changed me. You have opened my eyes to my own selfishness, my self-centeredness. You have refocused my wandering path and given me a purpose. You have taught me that my needs are small, but my wants are great. I have exorbitantly...
One of the requirements for our dossier is 4 family photo pages. These pages will go with the rest of our paperwork to Ethiopia and will give the people overseeing our application a better idea of who we are and where we live. We have to include 2 posed photos of Chris and I, 4...
Yay! We had our last home study visit on Wednesday! It went really well. We absolutely love our social worker Adela :) She is sweet and informative. We talked about many things and got some great advice. Slowly, it is all becoming more real. Adoption is a long process, but I would argue that is...
We met with Adela, our social worker again on Friday. It was wonderful to have someone to talk to about the process. Because there is no physical evidence (a protruding belly or morning sickness), it is easy (even for Chris and I) to overlook that we will soon become parents. Talking to Adela made everything...
