On November 16, 2007 we faxed our preliminary adoption application, and on November 17, 2007 we watched as the mailman took the preliminary adoption application. I consider this the official start of the adoptions process. Today, we had our scheduled International adoption awareness meeting with our agency. A dear friend watched Lawson and Eli while we had an hour and a half phone meeting about the ins and outs of international adoption. The meeting was informative, exciting, and exhausting for me. Our next step is to complete our formal application and submit it by December 21st.
Right now we have not told our families that we have started the adoption process. It's Killing me, we are so excited, I want to tell everyone; but we are going to wait for the holiday's when we will be together. It's going to be soooo... exciting to share this news with them.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Quest for Kennedy Starts
At the end of October God showed us the path to Kennedy. While sitting and waiting for the church service to start, I noticed an annoucement in the bulletin for First Friday's. First Friday's is a group of community members who meet to support each other throught the adoption process of a Chinese child. We attended our a First Friday's Meeting on November 2, 2007 to find out more information about adoption. Everyone we met and talked to was a blessing; by the end of the meeting we were sure that now was the right time for us to start the adoption process. We spent many hours on the internet and on the phone talking to many different adoption agencies about adopting an international child. Finally we decided to use AAI to adopt a baby girl from Ethiopia. We are going to use this space to log the process. We hope you enjoy the journey with us.
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