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!!
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 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.
October 23rd, 2015
It has been a really rough week with lots of tears shed over our little one being so far away. We have been working hard on letting go of the control and trusting God's plan. This is so hard to do. Please be praying for us over the next few months as I expect it to be a really tough holiday season without our baby here to celebrate with us.
With that being said we also have some really exciting news. Lifeline our placing agency finally received our certified copies of our home study today and they are going to overnight them to immigration. We can officially start the 45 day countdown (praying it does not take longer than this). This is a BIG step forward in the adoption process and bringing our little one home. Praising God for a happy end to a very tough week.
I wanted to thank everyone who has bought a puzzle piece so far!! We have sold 82 pieces!! We have 418 more to go! This is a huge blessing for us since our house has not sold. We have several payments coming up and everything helps!! Thank you again for all of your prayers, love, and support.
It has been a really rough week with lots of tears shed over our little one being so far away. We have been working hard on letting go of the control and trusting God's plan. This is so hard to do. Please be praying for us over the next few months as I expect it to be a really tough holiday season without our baby here to celebrate with us.
With that being said we also have some really exciting news. Lifeline our placing agency finally received our certified copies of our home study today and they are going to overnight them to immigration. We can officially start the 45 day countdown (praying it does not take longer than this). This is a BIG step forward in the adoption process and bringing our little one home. Praising God for a happy end to a very tough week.
I wanted to thank everyone who has bought a puzzle piece so far!! We have sold 82 pieces!! We have 418 more to go! This is a huge blessing for us since our house has not sold. We have several payments coming up and everything helps!! Thank you again for all of your prayers, love, and support.
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