Hey everyone! I just wanted to put it out there that we are doing a garage sale to help fund our adoption. We are going through our house and "spring cleaning", and will put everything into our garage sale that we don't need anymore. If any of you are also in the process of spring cleaning and purging your house, we would gladly take your stuff off your hands. If you weren't planning on doing a garage sale yourself and just wanted a place to donate your stuff, bring it to our house! Our garage sale is the first weekend of June at my parents house. They live on a small island (the size of a neighborhood) and the community puts on a garage sale every year that is HUGE!!! We thought this was a good place to start trying to earn some extra money to pay the fees of the adoption agency, our home study and applying for immigration for our daughter. All of which are things that we will need to fund in the next few months.
So, if you would like to donate your things to us, we will gladly accept it! If you are interested, you can contact either Ryan or myself through Facebook, e-mail, text or calling us. Then we can arrange a "transfer of goods"! Thanks in advance, I figure every little bit helps!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Beginning of Our Adventure
Here we are again starting another blog for one of our children...our newest one! As many of you know we created a blog when Caleb was in the NICU to inform family and friends of his status and to ask for prayers. Then we created another one when Eli was in the NICU and at Children's for the same reason.
Well, this is a bit of a different type of blog! We haven't actually gotten our child yet. We have, however, decided to start the adoption process to adopt a little girl! We have felt God calling us to adopt a daughter from Ethiopia! We are super excited and scared and nervous at the same time. But we know we are supposed to keep our eyes on Jesus and he will lead us where we need to go.
There has been a lot of corruption and then attempted reform in the past few years in the Ethiopian adoption process. This, sadly for us, has slowed down the process and the wait time for referrals to 2-4 years, depending on the agency that quotes it. This is quite frustrating for us. I have been researching agencies the past two weeks and it's been really hard finding one I feel comfortable using. I have more agencies to research and contact, but seem to have narrowed it down to a couple we really like. It's just a long hard process. I understand that this slow down is supposed to help ensure that the children who are being adopted are actually truly orphans and don't have any family members who can take care of them. I want the system to work and be ethical, but selfishly, I just wish the process could go quickly and easily for us! But we are also leaning on God and know that I must have patience (not a virtue of mine) and we must keep following His lead.
We are so excited to be able to share this news with our friends and family! We would love and need your prayers! We need prayer for patience, strength, safe keeping of our daughter and finances through this expensive process! We hope to update the blog as much as possible as we walk through the process to keep people who are interested informed! If you have any questions or want to "talk adoption" feel free to contact us!
Well, this is a bit of a different type of blog! We haven't actually gotten our child yet. We have, however, decided to start the adoption process to adopt a little girl! We have felt God calling us to adopt a daughter from Ethiopia! We are super excited and scared and nervous at the same time. But we know we are supposed to keep our eyes on Jesus and he will lead us where we need to go.
There has been a lot of corruption and then attempted reform in the past few years in the Ethiopian adoption process. This, sadly for us, has slowed down the process and the wait time for referrals to 2-4 years, depending on the agency that quotes it. This is quite frustrating for us. I have been researching agencies the past two weeks and it's been really hard finding one I feel comfortable using. I have more agencies to research and contact, but seem to have narrowed it down to a couple we really like. It's just a long hard process. I understand that this slow down is supposed to help ensure that the children who are being adopted are actually truly orphans and don't have any family members who can take care of them. I want the system to work and be ethical, but selfishly, I just wish the process could go quickly and easily for us! But we are also leaning on God and know that I must have patience (not a virtue of mine) and we must keep following His lead.
We are so excited to be able to share this news with our friends and family! We would love and need your prayers! We need prayer for patience, strength, safe keeping of our daughter and finances through this expensive process! We hope to update the blog as much as possible as we walk through the process to keep people who are interested informed! If you have any questions or want to "talk adoption" feel free to contact us!
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