Monday, November 2, 2009

One year later

One year ago our family saw Adam's picture and heard about him for the first time. In that year we have decided to move forward to adopt Adam, met with a social worker to start the process, we completed a formal application, met with our social worker so she could write up our homestudy. We have applied for adoption grants. We have worked on our dossier and worked on our dossier and worked on our dossier! We traveled to Dover twice and we submitted our dossier to our agency. Then we were told that our medical forms for our dossier had to be rewritten so they will be within the 6 month window. So, after two weeks we had our medical forms and the kids and I traveled down to Dover, again! :smile: On friday I overnighted the final documents for our dossier to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Now I am working on our "LOI" which stands for Letter of Intent, which is a form that our agency will send to China to match us to Adam.

I know that we've gotten a lot of things done in the LONG list of things that need to get done. We still have alot that needs to get done but everything that we complete takes us that much closer to meeting our son!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers. There are alot of things that we have to finish to complete this adoption. We also need to raise alot of money, we should find out this week about one of our adoption grants.
Well, gotta go take care of Brian who is getting pudding out! :sigh:

1 comment:

Rachel said...

Thank you for the update and the recap! Wow! I can't believe it's a been a year already! Where did the time go? :) Feels like it was just yesterday you all decided you wanted to adopt Adam!

We are keeping you all in our prayers! Glad so much could be accomplished! I know God will help you with all the rest that needs to be done, and He will provide the money for you! :) We'll pray that you can get the grant! :D

Hehe, I can just picture Brian getting that pudding out. ;) Lol!

Blessings in Christ!
~Rachel P.~