Lately, almost anything almost gets me crying. It is killing me to know about this little girl in Ghana and not be able to go get her. What’s killing me more? The agency we are working with is not being very helpful. Well, maybe that’s not the way to put it. They aren’t helping AT […]
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Family of 4 by Christmas?
November 28, 2010
We have our tree up and the house is decorated with the exception of our stockings. We know we won’t bring little miss home by Christmas, but if we could just feel more certain that she will be ours soon, we can start acting like a family of 4. I’d love to fill a stocking […]
[Continue reading...]Ghana bound!
November 24, 2010
It’s official. We are moving on to Ghana. I’m so excited about the Ghana and about our sweet little girl! So, next steps: Our dossier for Ethiopia was done and ready for our I-171H from USCIS. From there, we were going to have to get a couple things sealed by the state and then have […]
[Continue reading...]While we wait…
November 23, 2010
I know this blog makes it seems like this whole process is just paperwork and to some extent that’s true. What I’ve neglected to post much about is what else we are doing in between paperwork and fingerprinting. Well, for me, this “paper pregnancy” is all consuming. I think about it 24/7. Poor Chris then […]
[Continue reading...]I-600A notification
November 23, 2010
One of my favorite things in the world right now is getting something adoption related in the mailbox! Yesterday was a good day for it as we got our notification that USCIS received our I-600A form. Now, we just want for another notice telling us when/where to get our fingerprints taken. Please keep us in […]
[Continue reading...]I-600A update
November 21, 2010
Nothing too big to report except that USCIS cashed our check on Thursday so… hopefully that means that this week we’ll get a letter telling us that they are processing our request and maybe even give us a case number.
[Continue reading...]Are we Ghana or not?
November 19, 2010
This weekend has been torture for me. We decided Thursday night that we would move forward with adopting Little Miss, but we had a ton of questions. No problem, I would just talk with the agency the next morning. Turns out, that would be a problem. Everyone was either too busy with meetings or out […]
[Continue reading...]Big day
November 18, 2010
I’m going to try my hardest to put today into words, but to do so, I have to tell you some back story. So, one of Chris’ cousins spent some life-changing time in Ghana this summer volunteering at an orphanage. It was at the same time that we decided to adopt from Ethiopia. When she […]
[Continue reading...]I-600A delivered
November 15, 2010
Our I-600A was delivered this morning!!! We are really on our way now! Now, we just wait for our fingerprint appointments.
[Continue reading...]The Baby Shower
November 15, 2010
It occurred to me yesterday that although I’ve been updating this blog with the day-to-day activities of our adoption, I haven’t shared much about what else is going on. You know, the “feeling” side of things. We really want this blog to help to the entire story to our new son or daughter so, I’m […]
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