Posts by adamw
Travel so far
We made it to the airport! A few photos of our journey so far:
Read MoreTesting and preparing
We are in full out prep mode today, blitzing to clean the house, pack the bags, download good books, setup software and a million other things. Even this post is doubling as a blog post and a test post sent from the iPad WordPress app :). Lots of updates to come, and hopefully some sleep…
Read MoreWe have Adoption travel plans – on our Anniversary!
Well, this week has probably been the hardest week for me personally regarding the adoption, but it is punctuated by great news on a special day. This morning around 1am we got the news that we will be traveling to China next week! And, this news came on our 10th Wedding Anniversary (May 17th, 2003)! We will…
Read MoreValuing Time
As we are preparing to travel I find myself really valuing my time. Like most people there are a million things each day vying for my time, and like most people I like to say yes when I ought to say no. But with a trip to China on the near horizon that will take…
Read MoreThe Waiting
The waiting part of the adoption process is hard. Really hard. Yesterday we were 95% certain that we would be traveling this Wednesday to go and get our son. Today we found out we will not. Its funny, sometimes you don’t realize how much you are looking forward to something until you are on the…
Read MoreTA on the way!
We just got word that our TA (Travel Approval to travel to China to get our son) is on the way! We should have it at the end of this week, which means we will be traveling next week, or the following week! Its hard to believe that the time has come and that we…
Read MoreUpdated Photos
Since we are getting close to travel we received our last update with pictures. Here are some updated photos of Samuel! Samuel’s Birthday Party from November (we sent presents and a cake) Most recent photos we have received.
Read MoreCelebrating!
Fedex delivered our LOA today and we had to sign and send back to our agency. After that we headed to Sonic Happy Hour to celebrate with some very dear friends! Wohooooo! LOA Celebration Chinese Dinner
Read MoreCelebrating today
Today Jess and I took the kids and went to the airport to welcome home some friends that just adopted from Ethiopia. It was truly beautiful seeing their family unit as one for the first time! Adoption is such an amazing miracle and demonstration of divine love! I wrote a few more thoughts in a…
Read MoreHalf Way
Its day 30 and we are half way through our 60 day fundraiser to raise $10,000. At this moment we are not nearly half way to that goal. Though I have been tempted to be a little down that the fundraiser is not going as well as I had hoped, God is working on my…
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