As many of you have heard, Ethiopia passed a bold law this week stating they are ending international adoption for future children. This is shocking and heart-breaking news. BUT we have been told from our agency that because we have…
This last week we received some amazing news from our agency. They have a baby boy waiting for us!!! His name is Abenezer and he is a little over 1 1/2 years old. At this point he is malnourished and…
As of this last week, we sent our entire collection of papers called the “dossier” off to the Assistant Stork in Washington DC. This was a project that took about 8 months to complete, that required things such as medical…
We received approval from the government after completing our homestudy, fingerprints and sending in all the necessary forms! This is a great step! Now we will complete our dossier in the next month or so 🙂 We are getting so…
We sent in our homestudy a little over a week ago! It’s a great step in the right direction. We are hoping to meet with our social worker this week, so that he is able to type up a formal…
In May, we submitted the formal application to our agency and have almost completed the first set of adoption fees which is $3,500. During the month of June, we will be tackling the homestudy paperwork and appointments required to complete…
It’s a Beautiful Thing… This thing they call parenting. Well, maybe it didn’t start that way, exactly. Our reunion with the kids in August was bittersweet. We adored seeing their faces again and realizing how much they had grown in…
June 11, 2012 This was most certainly a day that will forever change our lives. It filled us with wonder and bonded us together forever… It started with an early morning, restless, unable to sleep after such long travel and…
On Friday, April 27, I woke up like every other day. But it was not just “any” day. Before leaving for work, I placed an awesome new bracelet that I had just bought myself on my wrist that I had…
Dim lighting, cool damp walls, thick musky aromas…a prison cell. Lonely, uncomfortable, overwhelming. Death hovering like a shadow. No promises of tomorrow. And yet Paul a soldier for Jesus sits in this cell thousands of years ago and writes in…