Today was a GOLD STAR DAY!! One that will be remembered for years to come in this process!!
We mailed our ENTIRE DOSSIER to "said country" today!!! YEAAAAAA
What does that mean? Well it means they will finish translating it and then they will "submit" it to their authorities...and we WAIT... lol How long? To be submitted a week or 2, or..... And then... well-- let's just take it step by step. I will come back with the next step when we are there!!
Bottom line-- we need to get BUSY raising Carter's Randsom!! Yes we do!! And SOMEONE was soooo kind and added funds to our FSP today!! Who EVER you are-- THANK YOU!!!!! I squeeled to hubby on the phone when I saw it!! THANK YOU !!!!
Showing posts with label Dossier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dossier. Show all posts
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Prayer Requests....
Oh wow.. what a week.... I thought it would be and it really is!!
SO excited for dear friends who are IN COUNTRY right now...they meet 2 of their 3 sweeties yesterday!! Can't wait to see pics!!! Yahoo!!!! SO exciting even sitting here-- watching and listening to their 'stories'!!
So excited for 2 families that are traveling to CARTER's orphanage just got their "Offical" invites to travel... not sure when-- they are not sharing dates, yet... most likely Mid August!! (they are packing so it must be close!!)
PLUS-- Laurel-- remember dear Laurel at the beginning of my blog?? Her family received TRAVEL DATES today TOO!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Oh yeah-- we have some families gonna "light it up!"!!!
SO excited for dear friends who are IN COUNTRY right now...they meet 2 of their 3 sweeties yesterday!! Can't wait to see pics!!! Yahoo!!!! SO exciting even sitting here-- watching and listening to their 'stories'!!
So excited for 2 families that are traveling to CARTER's orphanage just got their "Offical" invites to travel... not sure when-- they are not sharing dates, yet... most likely Mid August!! (they are packing so it must be close!!)
PLUS-- Laurel-- remember dear Laurel at the beginning of my blog?? Her family received TRAVEL DATES today TOO!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Oh yeah-- we have some families gonna "light it up!"!!!
I have a few prayer requests on our end too...
1- Please pray we have submitted an application for a matching grant from Life Song... that would be so helpful with our funding!!
2- I think we are DONE with documents for our Dossier!! Yeaaa I need to get an approval on the notaries I received today and then Jason will run them to Harrisburg to get Appositled tomorrow-- and we will then MAIL THEM TOMORROW!!!!!!!! Ahhhh really?? That would be AWESOME!!!
3- I am now in my "fund raising" mode-- trying to come up with ways to help BRING CARTER HOME. Lord willing, I will have our give-away up and running August 1st. I also have another neat idea in mind, after I check with a family in our church to see if they would help me out in artistic area....
If any of you have ANY ideas, PLEASE let me know..... Not sure if anyone does bake sales any more... (most people I know are GF!! LOL) Any ideas would be great just to toss around and see. Most of all, Please Pray-- GOD can make a way where we NEVER saw a way!!
I know that--I've seen that-- I beleive that!!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Very BIG week....
This is going to be such an exciting week (I pray).
Tomorrow we are headed out to do an important part of our adoption process. We will be driving 2 hours 1 way to do this...and we PRAY for favor with those involved. Please pray if you would that we would have favor and safe travels.
Then if that goes well-- we should hopefully have many documents to finish notarizing and then apostilling...and LORD WILLING-- could we be ready to mail things to "said country" by August 1st? (that is the goal in my head....but I am waiting as well as I can on HIM).
***IF we were to submit by August 1st... we would travel to country in 7-9 weeks from then..... so October/November? And really that is so very tentative... anything could come up with our paperwork or the country..... but I know some have asked-- when will you be traveling and getting him??? And that is our VERY tentative timeline. We will not know the REAL date until about 1-3 weeks before we LEAVE!! Yes that is right, we will have a very short time to pack and be ready with plane tickets to GO! SO those weeks will be very busy raising funds and preparing our home (and kids at home, how will I leave them i am still not sure) and packing..... we will not be bored, excited yes, bored NO.
It is also a SUPER big week because I have a few families that I "KNOW" that are in "SAID country" RIGHT NOW!! I thought they were not leaving until NEXT week-- but they got there Saturday!! Whoo Hooo That is so exciting!! I haven't seen any pictures yet, but I am hanging on every word on their travel and meal excitement!! lol One family HOPEFULLY will SEE CARTER!! Oh I hope!! How exciting!! And to think in 5-6 weeks there will be MANY LESS ORPHANS!!!!
Also, my dear friend and family the Suttons are traveling in 6 days to their SAID country-- to meet their son!! They still need $400 to travel...so if you feel led, please consider helping them. And if you are REALLY excited about adoption and THE BIG PICTURE of ADOPTION check out these AWESOME wrist bands she is selling!! I love them. Joshua has worn his since the day we bought ours. (mine was lost by a toddler) but we are ordering more for our family...... they are SOOO cute!!
You can order them or make a donation here:
Tomorrow we are headed out to do an important part of our adoption process. We will be driving 2 hours 1 way to do this...and we PRAY for favor with those involved. Please pray if you would that we would have favor and safe travels.
Then if that goes well-- we should hopefully have many documents to finish notarizing and then apostilling...and LORD WILLING-- could we be ready to mail things to "said country" by August 1st? (that is the goal in my head....but I am waiting as well as I can on HIM).
***IF we were to submit by August 1st... we would travel to country in 7-9 weeks from then..... so October/November? And really that is so very tentative... anything could come up with our paperwork or the country..... but I know some have asked-- when will you be traveling and getting him??? And that is our VERY tentative timeline. We will not know the REAL date until about 1-3 weeks before we LEAVE!! Yes that is right, we will have a very short time to pack and be ready with plane tickets to GO! SO those weeks will be very busy raising funds and preparing our home (and kids at home, how will I leave them i am still not sure) and packing..... we will not be bored, excited yes, bored NO.
It is also a SUPER big week because I have a few families that I "KNOW" that are in "SAID country" RIGHT NOW!! I thought they were not leaving until NEXT week-- but they got there Saturday!! Whoo Hooo That is so exciting!! I haven't seen any pictures yet, but I am hanging on every word on their travel and meal excitement!! lol One family HOPEFULLY will SEE CARTER!! Oh I hope!! How exciting!! And to think in 5-6 weeks there will be MANY LESS ORPHANS!!!!
Also, my dear friend and family the Suttons are traveling in 6 days to their SAID country-- to meet their son!! They still need $400 to travel...so if you feel led, please consider helping them. And if you are REALLY excited about adoption and THE BIG PICTURE of ADOPTION check out these AWESOME wrist bands she is selling!! I love them. Joshua has worn his since the day we bought ours. (mine was lost by a toddler) but we are ordering more for our family...... they are SOOO cute!!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Moving right a long!! I 600A!! Homestudy
Little updates..we are plugging along.
I received our rough draft home study Friday at 7pm! I have made some changes and my state side coordinator has made some changes we are waiting on one more "pre approval" and then we can submit and get a FINAL draft HOPEFULLY THIS WEEK!!!
Since we are so close my state side coordinator sent me the I600A form!! How exciting! And thankfully we do have the funds for that. $890 (including 2 biometric fingerprinting).
We also have a $500 fee we need to wire over to "said country" for their help in processing and "pre approving" forms and translating forms. THAT-- we need a little help with.
We also did get another call for the Suburban. We thought we would ask $7000. (that is the "good" private party value on KBB), We had one offer for $4000 but there is NO way because Jason just had new shocks, brakes and roters put on last week so we have a $1200 bill before we can even SELL it now. :( However today a guy called and offered $5500. I would REALLY like to see closer to $6k, but he is in "re sale" so he is looking to buy and re-sell on his lot... so I see why he offered $5500 HE will then sell on his LOT for $7000. So now to decide--- take the offer or wait.... I was REALLY REALLY planning on the Suburban to pay our Adoption fees of $9000 (when we get in country).... decisions decisions..... If we sell it for $5500 we will only clear $4300. Pass on this offer and get another one....maybe???
So that is where we are still paper chasing some documents. Waiting forever for Jason's PA birth certificate. Waiting for an employment letter that needs notarized, waiting for a new rental agreement with our landlord notarized, waiting for a few documents that need CAREFUL attention and notarization and licence copies from our family doctor (PRAYER is the only thing that will make that all happen with no problems).
So now I get it-- we are in the "Hurry Up and WAIT" phase of things.
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BUT PLEASE--- all those small hurdles I mentioned above do not seem big at all when you consider what TERRIBLE HORRIBLE BEYOND WORDS ordeal this family is in the middle of See HERE....
PLEASE PRAY for this FAMILY!!!
Here is their latest update...
I received our rough draft home study Friday at 7pm! I have made some changes and my state side coordinator has made some changes we are waiting on one more "pre approval" and then we can submit and get a FINAL draft HOPEFULLY THIS WEEK!!!
Since we are so close my state side coordinator sent me the I600A form!! How exciting! And thankfully we do have the funds for that. $890 (including 2 biometric fingerprinting).
We also have a $500 fee we need to wire over to "said country" for their help in processing and "pre approving" forms and translating forms. THAT-- we need a little help with.
We also did get another call for the Suburban. We thought we would ask $7000. (that is the "good" private party value on KBB), We had one offer for $4000 but there is NO way because Jason just had new shocks, brakes and roters put on last week so we have a $1200 bill before we can even SELL it now. :( However today a guy called and offered $5500. I would REALLY like to see closer to $6k, but he is in "re sale" so he is looking to buy and re-sell on his lot... so I see why he offered $5500 HE will then sell on his LOT for $7000. So now to decide--- take the offer or wait.... I was REALLY REALLY planning on the Suburban to pay our Adoption fees of $9000 (when we get in country).... decisions decisions..... If we sell it for $5500 we will only clear $4300. Pass on this offer and get another one....maybe???
So that is where we are still paper chasing some documents. Waiting forever for Jason's PA birth certificate. Waiting for an employment letter that needs notarized, waiting for a new rental agreement with our landlord notarized, waiting for a few documents that need CAREFUL attention and notarization and licence copies from our family doctor (PRAYER is the only thing that will make that all happen with no problems).
So now I get it-- we are in the "Hurry Up and WAIT" phase of things.
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BUT PLEASE--- all those small hurdles I mentioned above do not seem big at all when you consider what TERRIBLE HORRIBLE BEYOND WORDS ordeal this family is in the middle of See HERE....
PLEASE PRAY for this FAMILY!!!
Here is their latest update...
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