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Sunday, December 20, 2009

you only have one life...

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Inside out means perfect...

This is our life.. Our purpose.. Our adoption journey.. Open. Honest. Unfiltered. Inside out.... Perfect.

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We are definitely as crazy as we look! ;) Married 10 years.. stupidly in love with each other. Can't wait to be with our baby... which is of course, the purpose of this blog. We are in the waiting stage of adopting our first child.. and we're learning that Patience certainly is a virtue ;) Adoption has been on our hearts for our entire marriage, but quite simply, the finances were never there. That was the main discouragement and the fact that we both needed to grow up a little bit. ;) God is preparing our hearts for this incredible journey into parenthood.. and He's taking us to the other side of the world to do so, for purposes even beyond finding our child. This walk of Faith that we are on is beyond even our craziest dreams! So now we're FINALLY moving forward with our dream of having a family, as we're counting down the minutes until we get to pinch those sweet, pudgy cheeks! Baby, here we come!! :)
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Our Timeline

10.12.10 Dossier en route to Ethiopia!!

10.2.10 Dossier en route to Washington DC for national authentication!

9.22.10 Dossier Complete! Being mailed to Bethany Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

7.1.10 Waiting for One random document from Texas before we can submit our I-600A form.. simultaneously compiling our dossier stuff..

6.11.10 Home Visit and HomeStudy Approval!!!

5.10.10 "Expectations Consultation" scheduled with agency.

5.3.10 Appointment with Bethany rescheduled due to flooding in downtown Nashville, after record rainfall from crazy weekend storms.

5.2.10 NCFA online training completed!

4.10.10 Sent in last document to Bethany, completing our paperwork! This week, doing the NCFA online training.. next step, home study!

02.12.10 Formal Application Submitted to Bethany! woohoo!! It all seems to be coming together now.. We must be headed in the right direction!

02.04.10 Our 2nd meeting @ Bethany... Formal Application and Homestudy Prep w/ Lisa :)

01.25.10 Official Information Meeting scheduled with Bethany!!!!!!!!! Finally met Chris.. we've been emailing since September!

12.2010 Shortly after Stu's new job begins.... What's that, God?? Did you say Ethiopia?? ;) Wow..
annnnnd the journey continues.. lol

12.2009 Stu employed again.. yay!! and we save, save, save..

10.15.09 Stu laid off... boo!!!

9.28.09 Bethany Preliminary Application Approved! Withdrew application from HSC.... and still we save, save, save....

9.24.09 Second guessing our agency decision.... Sending in Preliminary Application to Bethany Christian Services.

9.9.09 Sent in Application to HSC.. Its official!

7.25.09 Adoption Fundraiser Yard Sale.. Raised $1375!!

6.5.09 Bought our 1st house!! A sweet, little home for our family :)

5.6.09 Offer was accepted for our 1st house! Closing date set for June 5th. Will begin replenishing savings ASAP to apply with adoption agency later this year (Nov/Dec).

3.26.09 Finishing our paperwork & autobiographies. Also saving $$.. Hope to send application on May 1st!

3.10.09 Attended adoption information meeting @ HSC

2.4.09 Received formal application from HSC in the mail.

1.22.09 God placed Korea on our hearts instead.

2001 Decision to adopt from China... someday.

9.9.00 Married... awww. Yep, almost a decade ago!

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