Sunday, July 25, 2010
July 25, 2010
We have been busy gathering documents, renewing passports, getting fingerprinted, and writing our autobiograhpies! We are in the midst of our homestudy and have much reading and educational workbooks, training sessions, and online courses to complete yet. I feel as if we are moving forward, yet not moving ahead at all. I hope that by October we can have this part of the process completed. It just seems so far away.
June 28, 2010
We had our online call with our case worker from AGCI to go our our dossier. My head is spinning! I'm trying to keep straight which paperwork we have to do for our homestudy and which overlaps with our dossier and which ones are different and which ones need notarized (all of them!!!) and which we need to focus on first. I'm going to try to make a to do list each week with just a handful of tasks to complete so that I can feel as if I am making progress.
June 23, 2010
June 23, 2010
We had our second home visit from our case worker from Baby Fold. She gave our oldest boys "homework" which they were eager to start! It's been cute to see them begin to process all of this. Gavin and Keaton have been spontaneously sharing with others about the adoption. They are talking about it more and I see their own anticipation now.
We had our second home visit from our case worker from Baby Fold. She gave our oldest boys "homework" which they were eager to start! It's been cute to see them begin to process all of this. Gavin and Keaton have been spontaneously sharing with others about the adoption. They are talking about it more and I see their own anticipation now.
June 21, 2010
This past weekend two of my dearest friends coordinated a garage sale fundraiser for our adoption. Over 25 people donated goods and so many others gave of their time and effort to pull this off! It was amazing! I saw such goodness in people who contributed in such a variety of ways. Our daughter will certainly hear about all of those who cared for her even before they knew here! I feel so blessed!
June 21, 2010
All God's Children emailed that our notarized contracts and first payment had been received! Our Adoption Planner is the mail and we have to set an appointment with our case manager to go through our dossier. We are moving forward with purpose now! I'm trying not to think about that credit card balance right now. We have a year without interest or payments, so I'm not going to put worry into that at this time. I am picturing our little girl and focusing on bringing her to our family.
Friday, May 28, 2010
May 21, 2010
Originally the following note was composed to send to close family members, but Jeremy prompted me to post it on facebook so we could share with our friends as well.
Hello! Jeremy and I wanted to share with you all some recent happenings for our family! Throughout the course of our marriage, the desire to adopt a child has been placed upon our hearts. Even before our own biological children were brought into the world, we were talking about this dream. We have always said “someday” we would like to adopt. It just wasn’t the right time. I would keep pushing it aside each time Jeremy would suggest looking into it more. We were busy with infants and our growing boys! How could we afford it? How would this impact our family? I continued to say “later” or “not now”. But in the past year, after much thought and prayer for God to lead us, it seems that our “someday” has become today and we are in fact pursuing adopting a daughter into our fold!
After extensive research and discussions with other adoptive parents in the area, we decided on the agency All God’s Children. Personally, I love the name, as it speaks volumes to our belief that God embraces us all around the world as His. We really did not care which country our child would come from. There are over 143 million orphaned children in the world. We consulted with 3 different agencies and they all told us that Ethiopia was the best match for us. (Of course this was the country Jeremy has had his eyes on for the past couple of years!)
About a month ago we submitted our application, filled out additional forms, mailed more forms, and this past Wednesday we received the call from our agency that they have approved our application for adoption. Our “paper pregnancy” has begun! This coming week we have an orientation call with a caseworker and more paperwork to complete! The first week of June our homestudy begins with our local agency, The Baby Fold. From there many more steps are required before this all can even come to fruition. We are hopeful though that a year from now, we will be welcoming a little girl around age 2 into our family.
Thank you in advance for your love and support as we open our arms to this child from around the world. Please keep her in prayer and we ask for your prayers as we continue in this process. We love you all and are so thankful for such a blessed unit of family and friends.
With love,
Jeremy & Julie
Hello! Jeremy and I wanted to share with you all some recent happenings for our family! Throughout the course of our marriage, the desire to adopt a child has been placed upon our hearts. Even before our own biological children were brought into the world, we were talking about this dream. We have always said “someday” we would like to adopt. It just wasn’t the right time. I would keep pushing it aside each time Jeremy would suggest looking into it more. We were busy with infants and our growing boys! How could we afford it? How would this impact our family? I continued to say “later” or “not now”. But in the past year, after much thought and prayer for God to lead us, it seems that our “someday” has become today and we are in fact pursuing adopting a daughter into our fold!
After extensive research and discussions with other adoptive parents in the area, we decided on the agency All God’s Children. Personally, I love the name, as it speaks volumes to our belief that God embraces us all around the world as His. We really did not care which country our child would come from. There are over 143 million orphaned children in the world. We consulted with 3 different agencies and they all told us that Ethiopia was the best match for us. (Of course this was the country Jeremy has had his eyes on for the past couple of years!)
About a month ago we submitted our application, filled out additional forms, mailed more forms, and this past Wednesday we received the call from our agency that they have approved our application for adoption. Our “paper pregnancy” has begun! This coming week we have an orientation call with a caseworker and more paperwork to complete! The first week of June our homestudy begins with our local agency, The Baby Fold. From there many more steps are required before this all can even come to fruition. We are hopeful though that a year from now, we will be welcoming a little girl around age 2 into our family.
Thank you in advance for your love and support as we open our arms to this child from around the world. Please keep her in prayer and we ask for your prayers as we continue in this process. We love you all and are so thankful for such a blessed unit of family and friends.
With love,
Jeremy & Julie
May 19, 2010
We were approved!! All God's Children called us this evening to confirm that they have approved our application for an Ethiopian adoption. It was that rush of emotions like I had just taken the pregnancy test and the stick in my hand read "pregnant"! Our "paper pregnancy" has begun. We are getting a packet FedExed to us and next week we have our orientation call with a caseworker. Baby Fold, our local agency, also contacted us today to set up a time to start their formal application. One step closer today.
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