“Mighty God”

We have had the privilege of visiting with a new body of believers the past weeks. It has been fun getting to know people from this church community and sharing about our family and our little one waiting for us in china. Today, the pastor was teaching on the name of Jesus “Mighty God” (Isaiah…

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Yea for fingerprints, well kinda!

You always hear that adoption has its ups and downs. The end of last week and the beginning of this week have been just that. We sent our I-800 paperwork (for immigration) in a few weeks ago. About a week or so later we received our receipt that was then followed by our appointment cards…

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LOI

This week we were able to go on a mini-vacation down to my mother-in-laws condo to get some much needed R&R.  While we were here not only did we get to spend some time as a family but we also submitted our LOI for a child.  We are excited and can’t wait to hear from China.…

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Acronym for Everything

For those in the adoption community there are many acronyms that track your progress to bring your child home. I thought I would briefly walk you through the acronyms and a bit of the process. LOI- Letter of Intent PA- Pending acceptance DTC- Dossier to China PA- Pending acceptance LOA- Letter of acceptance TA-Travel Approval For those…

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Still Trucking Along

I laugh that my last blog post was over 7 months ago and titled “I’m not good at this blogging thing”. We have been super busy since February, buying a house, moving, fundraising, finishing up our homestudy, summer-time fun, fundraising, a broken bone, sending my 2nd grader and Kindergartner off to school, Together for Adoption…

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I’m not so good at this blogging thing….

So my last update was about a month ago and it seems like so much has happened since then, but then again it seems like nothing really to update. It seems in the adoption process it is this hurry up, now wait, hurry up, oh now wait, hurry up, wait process. We are in the…

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Update:

It seems that we are well over due for an update on where we are in the long process. We made our first payment back in December which allowed us to continue moving forward in the process.  Thank you everyone who supported us with soap and financial gifts!  The Lord provided, as He always does.…

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