January 4th, 2016
We are excited to announce that we have a LID (log-in date). We received a phone call today to tell us we are officially logged-in in China. After 8 1/2 long months we have finished the final step and are now open and waiting to receive a referral. We cannot tell you how ready we are to see our little ones face. They have told us it can be up to a 2-3 month wait. We are praying that we receive a referral in January. I am not sure how much longer my heart can take. I never imagined I could love someone so much that my heart literally aches without ever seeing her face.
Please continue to pray for our baby girl. Prayers that all of her needs are met emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially. That most importantly she feels loved by her caregivers and her Heavenly father. Prayers for her caregivers and her birth mom. I cannot imagine the pain of giving up your baby because you have no other choice. Please join me in praying that God whispers to her heart that her baby has another mommy and daddy fighting for her and that she will soon be in a loving family.
With the news this week my heart wants to burst with happiness, but also aches at yet another wait. I know God is working during the waiting and working in us on trust, patience and perseverance. Please pray we can continue to trust God's perfect timing, trust that he has her in the palm of his hand because he loves her even more than we do and that we can find joy in the waiting. This journey has been harder than I ever imagined, but we have never felt closer to God. We continue to feel honored and blessed that God chose us for this journey. The aching of our hearts is only temporary and once we have her in our arms we will be able to rest from this journey. We will finally be able to come home and begin our lives as a family of 5!!
I am going to leave you with a quote I read off of one of the many adoption blogs I have read over the past few months (I think I have read them all because I cannot find any I have not read). We are trying our best to walk by faith and not question this journey, but it is so hard.
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."
Oswald Chambers
Hope, Love, and Grace! This is our families faith journey to bring home our baby girl from China. For we walk by faith, not by sight! 2 Corinthians 5:7
December 21st, 2015
We are so excited to announce that we are DTC!! This is dossier to China!! All of the paperwork we have been working on over the past 8 months is finally in China!! We are beyond excited that this happened before Christmas. We could not have asked for a better Christmas present. Now we wait for a LID or a log in date. This means all of our paperwork is logged-in in China!! Our agency told us this is currently taking 2-3 weeks to receive an LID once you are DTC. We are of course praying for 2 weeks. Once this happens we will be officially open for a referral. A referral will be pictures, video and a health history of a precious little one in China!! We are praying that God will send us our daughter on the first referral and that we will just know!! We have been told it can take 2 months to receive a referral, but we are also praying we get a referral in January.
Please be praying for our little one in China, her caregivers, and her birth mom. She will not be celebrating Christmas this year and this breaks my heart. Praising God this is her last holiday season as an orphan. God also reminded me that there are 150 million orphans around the world who do not have mommies and daddies to celebrate Christmas with this year. Please be praying for all of the children in the world who do not have families.
We hope you have a Merry and Blessed Christmas celebrating the amazing gift God gave us in his son!! Happy Birthday Jesus!!
We are so excited to announce that we are DTC!! This is dossier to China!! All of the paperwork we have been working on over the past 8 months is finally in China!! We are beyond excited that this happened before Christmas. We could not have asked for a better Christmas present. Now we wait for a LID or a log in date. This means all of our paperwork is logged-in in China!! Our agency told us this is currently taking 2-3 weeks to receive an LID once you are DTC. We are of course praying for 2 weeks. Once this happens we will be officially open for a referral. A referral will be pictures, video and a health history of a precious little one in China!! We are praying that God will send us our daughter on the first referral and that we will just know!! We have been told it can take 2 months to receive a referral, but we are also praying we get a referral in January.
Please be praying for our little one in China, her caregivers, and her birth mom. She will not be celebrating Christmas this year and this breaks my heart. Praising God this is her last holiday season as an orphan. God also reminded me that there are 150 million orphans around the world who do not have mommies and daddies to celebrate Christmas with this year. Please be praying for all of the children in the world who do not have families.
We hope you have a Merry and Blessed Christmas celebrating the amazing gift God gave us in his son!! Happy Birthday Jesus!!
December 4th, 2015
I have amazing news!! We got our I-800A approval today!! The I-800A is the US government approving us to adopt a baby from China!! I was praying we would get this the week before Christmas and we got it 4 days after our fingerprint appointment. It was actually approved the day after our fingerprint appointment. The quickest I had read from other blogs was 17 days after their appointment. God showed off big on this one!! Praising him for the quick approval. Now we have to get the document authenticated like the rest of the documents that are already authenticated, then all of our paperwork will be off to China! In the adoption world we will be DTC which is dossier to China!! This is a huge step. We should get an LID or a log in date about a week after we go DTC. Once we get an LID we are open for referrals. Praying we have an LID by Christmas. I told John all I want for Christmas is an LID:). We could receive a referral quickly or could have to wait a month or two. Praying we get one soon after we receive our LID. Also praying God gives us our baby on the 1st referral, that we would just know she is our daughter. When we receive a referral we will get pictures, videos, and a health history. We will have 48 hours to accept or decline the referral. We are so excited and ready to see her face!! Please keep praying for us and our sweet baby.
I have amazing news!! We got our I-800A approval today!! The I-800A is the US government approving us to adopt a baby from China!! I was praying we would get this the week before Christmas and we got it 4 days after our fingerprint appointment. It was actually approved the day after our fingerprint appointment. The quickest I had read from other blogs was 17 days after their appointment. God showed off big on this one!! Praising him for the quick approval. Now we have to get the document authenticated like the rest of the documents that are already authenticated, then all of our paperwork will be off to China! In the adoption world we will be DTC which is dossier to China!! This is a huge step. We should get an LID or a log in date about a week after we go DTC. Once we get an LID we are open for referrals. Praying we have an LID by Christmas. I told John all I want for Christmas is an LID:). We could receive a referral quickly or could have to wait a month or two. Praying we get one soon after we receive our LID. Also praying God gives us our baby on the 1st referral, that we would just know she is our daughter. When we receive a referral we will get pictures, videos, and a health history. We will have 48 hours to accept or decline the referral. We are so excited and ready to see her face!! Please keep praying for us and our sweet baby.
November 19th, 2015
Praise God!! We got our fingerprint appointment today. I have never been so happy to see mail from:
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
in my life. Our appointment is set for November 30th at 8:00 a.m. Thankful we got our appointment before the holidays so we can rest in knowing we will be going the Monday after Thanksgiving. Again please continue praying for our sweet baby and us over the holidays. I am going to be decorating for Christmas this week and I am already dreading hanging the stockings because I know one will be missing. Thankful knowing this will be the last set of holidays before we have our baby with us. We hope you have a Blessed Thanksgiving!!
Praise God!! We got our fingerprint appointment today. I have never been so happy to see mail from:
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
in my life. Our appointment is set for November 30th at 8:00 a.m. Thankful we got our appointment before the holidays so we can rest in knowing we will be going the Monday after Thanksgiving. Again please continue praying for our sweet baby and us over the holidays. I am going to be decorating for Christmas this week and I am already dreading hanging the stockings because I know one will be missing. Thankful knowing this will be the last set of holidays before we have our baby with us. We hope you have a Blessed Thanksgiving!!
November 18th, 2015
Hello everyone!! I cannot believe it is Thanksgiving next week. Please keep us in your prayers as we will be celebrating missing one of our babies. I know it is going to be a tough one.
I also wanted to let everyone know that I added a link on the blog that you can sign up to follow the blog. It will notify you when I post something new!
We are also excited to announce that we got approved for an Adopt Together profile. This is an organization that helps people fundraise for adoptions. It is also a 501C3 so you can donate and write it off on your taxes:)
Still praying we get our fingerprint appointment this week!!
Hello everyone!! I cannot believe it is Thanksgiving next week. Please keep us in your prayers as we will be celebrating missing one of our babies. I know it is going to be a tough one.
I also wanted to let everyone know that I added a link on the blog that you can sign up to follow the blog. It will notify you when I post something new!
We are also excited to announce that we got approved for an Adopt Together profile. This is an organization that helps people fundraise for adoptions. It is also a 501C3 so you can donate and write it off on your taxes:)
Still praying we get our fingerprint appointment this week!!
November 9th, 2015
Well we got our receipt from immigration today!! We were so excited to get that receipt because we know they received everything and will begin to process it. Our next step is waiting for our fingerprint appointment. Praying we get this next week.
We also wanted to tell everyone that China lifted its one child policy. Chinese families will now be allowed to have 2 children. This is very exciting because hopefully we will see the number of aborted and abandoned children decrease. However, we do not currently see this affecting the number of children with medical special needs who are abandoned. Since we are adopting a child with special needs and we know our precious one has already been born and waiting for us in an orphanage it will not affect our adoption timeline. Praise God for this!!
Well we got our receipt from immigration today!! We were so excited to get that receipt because we know they received everything and will begin to process it. Our next step is waiting for our fingerprint appointment. Praying we get this next week.
We also wanted to tell everyone that China lifted its one child policy. Chinese families will now be allowed to have 2 children. This is very exciting because hopefully we will see the number of aborted and abandoned children decrease. However, we do not currently see this affecting the number of children with medical special needs who are abandoned. Since we are adopting a child with special needs and we know our precious one has already been born and waiting for us in an orphanage it will not affect our adoption timeline. Praise God for this!!
November 1st, 2015
Well we checked the mail today because we forgot to check it yesterday with all of the Halloween parties and excitement and we received a packet back from Immigration. It turns out we accidentally wrote a 12/13 instead of a 10/13 on the check and since they could not cash it they sent the entire packet back with a big piece of paper on top that read Denied. Needless to say it was an emotional day with lots of tears shed.
After this second delay of another 1 1/2 weeks I am leaning more on God and doing my best to trust in his perfect timing. I know he is in control and would not allow our baby to spend 1 more day than she is suppose to in an orphanage away from her mommy, daddy, and 2 big sisters. Please pray we can let go and trust his perfect timing.
We will overnight the paperwork to Homeland Security/Immigration tomorrow so they will receive everything on Tuesday the 3rd.
Well we checked the mail today because we forgot to check it yesterday with all of the Halloween parties and excitement and we received a packet back from Immigration. It turns out we accidentally wrote a 12/13 instead of a 10/13 on the check and since they could not cash it they sent the entire packet back with a big piece of paper on top that read Denied. Needless to say it was an emotional day with lots of tears shed.
After this second delay of another 1 1/2 weeks I am leaning more on God and doing my best to trust in his perfect timing. I know he is in control and would not allow our baby to spend 1 more day than she is suppose to in an orphanage away from her mommy, daddy, and 2 big sisters. Please pray we can let go and trust his perfect timing.
We will overnight the paperwork to Homeland Security/Immigration tomorrow so they will receive everything on Tuesday the 3rd.
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