Side Bar Update/Announcement

I've Updated my sidebar, so go over to the left and take a look!

Yes, you'll notice our news: We're starting another adoption!!!

We're not ready to share a lot of details yet, other than what's already on the sidebar. We knew our family was not complete when Elijah & Josephine came home, but we all needed time to adjust to life in a family of 5 before we started thinking about another adoption.

Around January, we started looking into adoption - domestic, foster-adopt, international (various countries). After a little research and a lot of prayer, we felt we sort of knew what direction we needed to go, but it didn't seem quite right. At that point it seemed like God was telling us it just wasn't time yet.

Over the next few months, we were wrestling with the direction that we felt God was calling us: not knowing if it was possible, wondering if we had some specifics wrong, or if we were still just to keep waiting and praying for the specifics to become clear.

In May, as we waited and continued praying, we started to see some doors opening. We began praying more specifically that the door we felt was our direction would swing wide open. That happened on May 18/19. We immediately jumped at the open door and submitted our application the following Monday. We received notice that our application had been accepted two days later. :)

So what's next? We're working on our homestudy and other documents that will be included in our dossier.

We hope to have our dossier completed and mailed by mid-July. It's a lofty goal, but so far it seems to be going more quickly this time, since we already (mostly) know from previous experience where to go and who to call for the various documents we need.

Once our dossier is finalized and mailed, we should receive a referral fairly quickly (although we don't know if that'll be a couple weeks or a couple months). When we accept a referral, then we'll be willing to share more information publicly about the whos/whats/wheres, etc.

In the meantime, please pray that our dossier completion goes smoothly. We know this is all happening in God's timing, and He has already prepared our child for our referral and subsequent adoption. We're praying for the referral process, and also for the entire adoption process.