Well, we are officially waiting for our precious baby girl. We decided to start this blog to keep family and friends up to date on the process of our adoption. Here is where we are... (and what we have done to get to this point)
- For the last 3 years we have been thinking about adoption. After three difficult and dangerous pregnancies, we excitedly looked more into adoption.
- In July of 2006, we filled out our application for Children's Home Sociecty and Family Services.
- August - we attended Pre-adoption classes and decided officially on international adoption from Ethiopia
- September- Our hometudy and completion of dossier
- October 10- our dossier was accepted, and we officially began waiting for our referral
Where do we go from here-
- We understand the next phase is the hardest!! WE WAIT!!! The wait for a referral of a 0-12 month girl is 4-6 months (lately most referrals are around 6 months)
- Then we frantically get ready to travel and bring home our new baby- the wait to travel is 1-2 months.
- The plane ride to Ethiopia is a full day long expedition
- We are in Ethiopia for about 1 week
Why Ethiopia?
Good question. We had narrowed down our country options, and began to talk and pray about each one. We felt drawn to Ethiopia because Nathanael Grandma (HI NORMA- hope your reading this) was a missionary there for over 40 years.
I hope you enjoy this journey! Let us know if you have visited and write us a quick comment!!
1 comment:
I'm so excited to be kept up to date on all of the happenings. I am an avid blog stalker so you can be sure I will be checking in daily.
Hope all is well for you in Duluth. I would love to be in touch more.
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