Do we look excited or WHAT!??? Our dossier is ON IT"S WAY TO AWAA!!! Next stop...CHINA!!!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
They came today!!!
Our docs from Houston came today!! I'm going to send them to AWAA tomorrow and they should go out next Friday to CHINA!! I may have a breakdown when I hand them to the man at FedEx, there is a lot of work, prayers, money and emotions in that package!! I'll take a pic when it's ready to send!!! Yeah!!!!
Last night Jay and I had a sweet prayer time for our girl. She is already so much a part of us! We are begging the Lord to let us get her by Christmas. We are praying EXPECTANTLY! Thanks so much for paying over this and walking this journey with us!!
Last night Jay and I had a sweet prayer time for our girl. She is already so much a part of us! We are begging the Lord to let us get her by Christmas. We are praying EXPECTANTLY! Thanks so much for paying over this and walking this journey with us!!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
they were a no show....
The three docs from Houston didn't arrive yet, so looks like we won't be sending our dossier till next week :(
That's alright, it's coming soon and we're sure it'll be at AWAA by next Wednesday so there is a peace in that. Come on Houston!!
Here's something really neat....
When I was pregnant with AD, the Lord began to really speak to me about China (this had been going on for years, but it was becoming apparent that it would be sooner than we thought...anyway, some people we "kinda" knew, the Footes, were going to China to get their daughter, Libby. Billy and Cindy are good friends with some good friends of ours, and Jay had hired them to lead worship on a youth retreat he had when he was a YM in MS. They were the first family that I actually "followed" via their blog and I actually got up at 5am on their "Gotcha Day" because I knew they would've posted pics of precious Libby. I cried as I read and saw all that happened to them that day, and the Lord spoke loud and clear to me that morning that our family would experience the same thing sometime in the future.
Fast forward, and the Footes are now about to turn in their dossier to AWAA to adopt another baby girl, this time from Ethiopia. And guess what? They are turning in their Ethiopian dossier NEXT WEEK! The same week we're turning ours in for China! Although they probably have no clue who we are, this is very confirming to me. The Lord's timing is amazing, and I cannot wait to meet miss Libby one day, and introduce her to our Ashley!! Cool, huh??!!
That's alright, it's coming soon and we're sure it'll be at AWAA by next Wednesday so there is a peace in that. Come on Houston!!
Here's something really neat....
When I was pregnant with AD, the Lord began to really speak to me about China (this had been going on for years, but it was becoming apparent that it would be sooner than we thought...anyway, some people we "kinda" knew, the Footes, were going to China to get their daughter, Libby. Billy and Cindy are good friends with some good friends of ours, and Jay had hired them to lead worship on a youth retreat he had when he was a YM in MS. They were the first family that I actually "followed" via their blog and I actually got up at 5am on their "Gotcha Day" because I knew they would've posted pics of precious Libby. I cried as I read and saw all that happened to them that day, and the Lord spoke loud and clear to me that morning that our family would experience the same thing sometime in the future.
Fast forward, and the Footes are now about to turn in their dossier to AWAA to adopt another baby girl, this time from Ethiopia. And guess what? They are turning in their Ethiopian dossier NEXT WEEK! The same week we're turning ours in for China! Although they probably have no clue who we are, this is very confirming to me. The Lord's timing is amazing, and I cannot wait to meet miss Libby one day, and introduce her to our Ashley!! Cool, huh??!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Blog Makeovers for Ashley!
My sweet friend Allison has offered to do blog makeovers in return for a donation to Ashley's adoption fund (25.00 suggested by her). You can check out our other site to see what a great job she does, and check out hers as well! THANKS ALLISON!!!!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Where we're at....
We've gotten back all but three documents from the Chinese consulate in Houston. (MY fault...read the directions from our agency wrong and had to have our Birth Cert. and Marriage lic. State certified). I sent them overnight to Houston yesterday and we should have them next week. As SOON as it comes back, it'll be overnighted to AWAA and IF we can get it to them by Wednesday, we'll be DTC on June 6th!!!
Did you read that right? Let me say it again......
WE"LL BE DTC ON JUNE 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So please please pray that we have our documents from the Consulate by next Tuesday! If not, we'll send it in and it will go out on the 13th.
(for those not familiar with the terms, DTC means "Documents to China" and it's the LAST step here in the US before referral!!! It's a HUGE deal!!)
Did you read that right? Let me say it again......
WE"LL BE DTC ON JUNE 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So please please pray that we have our documents from the Consulate by next Tuesday! If not, we'll send it in and it will go out on the 13th.
(for those not familiar with the terms, DTC means "Documents to China" and it's the LAST step here in the US before referral!!! It's a HUGE deal!!)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Unknown Timeline
Per Kate's request, here's a general idea of a timeline. We've been on our agency's "interested families" list for the Waiting Child Program since July 2007. At that time there were between 80-100 families on that list. Even though we were no where near being paper ready, we knew we were going SN, so we added our name. The agency is currently telling families to expect a wait of anywhere from 8-14months on that list. Now that we are paper ready, and have been on the list for 10 months, it solely depends on what children the agency receives, and if any of those children match the criteria we said we were open too. Just so you know, we are open to a female, age 0-36 months, with specific special needs (we listed several we were comfortable with, too long to list or go into.) For a GREAT blog about "why special needs?" you can check out this family that returned with their child a few weeks ago.
So where does that put us? Honestly, ONLY THE LORD KNOWS. We're asking the Lord to allow us to travel to China in 2008. We've been praying that all along. We know that the staff at AWAA pray over each child and fervently seek the Lord when deciding what family to call for what child. Every time we get an email that they've gotten a new "list," we pray that the Lord would write our name on their hearts and as soon as they see our Ashley, they'll know without a doubt she belongs with us. We totally trust them and the process, which is so rare in adoption agencies these days.
Hope that makes a little sense. You can pray with us that we'll see her face this year. That we'll be able to bring her home and put this part of the process behind us....because we know after we bring her home, a whole new process will begin!!!!
So where does that put us? Honestly, ONLY THE LORD KNOWS. We're asking the Lord to allow us to travel to China in 2008. We've been praying that all along. We know that the staff at AWAA pray over each child and fervently seek the Lord when deciding what family to call for what child. Every time we get an email that they've gotten a new "list," we pray that the Lord would write our name on their hearts and as soon as they see our Ashley, they'll know without a doubt she belongs with us. We totally trust them and the process, which is so rare in adoption agencies these days.
Hope that makes a little sense. You can pray with us that we'll see her face this year. That we'll be able to bring her home and put this part of the process behind us....because we know after we bring her home, a whole new process will begin!!!!
Friday, May 16, 2008
My Dream....
Just documenting this to see if any of it has truth in the future....
Last night I had a dream about our referral call....Melissa called and told us she had a little girl for us to look at....her name was Mei Fu Pei (not even sure this is even how to spell that). When I asked her how old she was, she said, "she's a BABY!! 10 months old!!" I was so so so excited!! In my dream we were eating at a restaurant and we immediately left to go to a computer to see her pictures....unfortunately I woke up so I didn;t dream about what she looked like :(
On the paper chase front, we sent our 797 off to TX to be authenticated and we when get it back (next week), we'll be able to send our entire dossier off to AWAA to be sent to CHINA!!! We're having a big party that day!!
Check back soon!
Last night I had a dream about our referral call....Melissa called and told us she had a little girl for us to look at....her name was Mei Fu Pei (not even sure this is even how to spell that). When I asked her how old she was, she said, "she's a BABY!! 10 months old!!" I was so so so excited!! In my dream we were eating at a restaurant and we immediately left to go to a computer to see her pictures....unfortunately I woke up so I didn;t dream about what she looked like :(
On the paper chase front, we sent our 797 off to TX to be authenticated and we when get it back (next week), we'll be able to send our entire dossier off to AWAA to be sent to CHINA!!! We're having a big party that day!!
Check back soon!
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