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One Child, Two Mothers One mother who waits, and wonders, anticipating how this New One will fit into the rhythm of her family. She is bound in hope, and love, and tenderness for this new child. They will live together in the here now and also in the promise of the future. Another mother whose [...] Waiting for Ellie was a hard, frustrating phase of our life. For us adoption became the way to extend our family after experiencing and coming to terms with infertility. We were told when we started that we should be home with our child within 12 months. Then China slowed down- everyone in [...] just this morning that I thought our dossier was in Ethiopia and we just hadn’t heard. I was right! An hour or so later an email came in from our adoption specialist letting me know that our dossier left Grand Rapids on October 24! I rushed downstairs to tell him and found him doing [...] Our dossier has been in D.C. for several weeks now being authenticated and registered at various agencies. I understand that going through these paces up front will diminish the hassle in the completion of the adoption and naturalization at the other end of the adoption process. I don’t know, but I am just ready to get [...] Our immigration petition is on its way to the US Embassy in Addis Ababa. It will be there waiting for us until we arrive with New Baby to be interviewed in order to finalize his/her US citizenship and immigration to the US. Our dossier is in Washington DC making its rounds to the US Dept. [...] Today, Ellie told me that she is a big sister now. I want to record this date because there were some very powerful, very supernatural things that happened while we were waiting for Ellie that later made complete sense when we compared her waiting time line with ours. I am thankful for the peaceful waiting for [...] …is on its way! It arrived in Grand Rapids today. We also received our Ethiopia travel packet. This is a very exciting item as it outlines the trip to Ethiopia to adopt our new child. There is information about the culture, its history, what to pack, when we will visit with [...] We finally received our immigration approval in the mail today. I think our sweet adoption specialist was as excited as I was. She said that everything else is ready to go and she will overnight our dossier to Grand Rapids later this week. She said to consider ourselves waiting! By the way, it is my birthday! Our dossier is ready to go to Ethiopia except for one little piece of paper. The approval from Homeland Security to immigrate an orphan. We were fingerprinted on Sept. 2. We received a request for more evidence about our homestudy less than two weeks after that. We responded within a week [...] I read a post on another “expectant” adoptive family’s blog that got me thinking…Actually, her words made me think I am not totally looney – or as looney as I sometimes fear. The mother was discussing having a physical reaction/link when we have children biologically versus not having one through adoption. She said, “My theory [...] |
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