Now that our baby is home safe in our arms, I am going to continue blogging - but on our family blog. I've been debating which blog to update and that is a small portion of why it's taken me so long to get back to blogging. I do still plan to chronicle our trip on this blog, and I may have some adoption related posts here and there, but as far as updates - you'll need to check in with the family blog... So, I bid thee adieu - for now!
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We're coming baby!
6/22/08 - Requested Adoption Application and info from Adoption Advocates International(AAI)
6/29/08 - Received packet from AAI
7/15/08 - Sent application to AAI
Contacted Homestudy Agency
Assigned a social worker
Received Homestudy application
7/17/08 - Returned Homestudy application and fee
Ian fingerprinted
7/23/08 - Applied for passports, Megan fingerprinted, submitted both sets of fingerprints to the courts.
7/30/08 - Sent letters of referral to family and friends
8/08/08 - Physicals for Ian and Megan
8/09/08 - First meeting with social worker
8/09/08 - Received dossier paperwork in the mail
8/12/08 - Fingerprinted(again) - this time for the FBI criminal check
8/26/08 - Second meeting with social worker
9/23/08 - Homestudy draft complete
9/30/08 - Homestudy sent to AAI agency
10/3/08 Dossier complete!!
11/1/08 Dossier re-sent to agency after corrections
11/21/08 Dossier received in Ethiopia - Officially on the waiting list!
3/05/09 - Received referral for Baby E.!!!
3/06/09 - Accepted referral for Baby E.!!!
4/30/09 - Case submitted to court, assigned to court group K.
5/13/09 - Assigned court date of June 8.
6/08/09 - Court - no cover letter. Fail.
6/11/09 - Assigned new court date of June 29
6/29/09 - New court date - PASSED!!!
7/04/09 - Assigned Embassy date: Aug 12
8/06/09 - Going to Ethiopia to bring home my baby boy!
Malachi Eyob
We're coming baby!
Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
-Dave Thomas
Founder of Wendy's
I'm only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale
Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right.
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-Dave Thomas
Founder of Wendy's
I'm only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale
Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right.
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Adoption Timeline
6/11/08 - Our journey began
6/22/08 - Requested Adoption Application and info from Adoption Advocates International(AAI)
6/29/08 - Received packet from AAI
7/15/08 - Sent application to AAI
Contacted Homestudy Agency
Assigned a social worker
Received Homestudy application
7/17/08 - Returned Homestudy application and fee
Ian fingerprinted
7/23/08 - Applied for passports, Megan fingerprinted, submitted both sets of fingerprints to the courts.
7/30/08 - Sent letters of referral to family and friends
8/08/08 - Physicals for Ian and Megan
8/09/08 - First meeting with social worker
8/09/08 - Received dossier paperwork in the mail
8/12/08 - Fingerprinted(again) - this time for the FBI criminal check
8/26/08 - Second meeting with social worker
9/23/08 - Homestudy draft complete
9/30/08 - Homestudy sent to AAI agency
10/3/08 Dossier complete!!
11/1/08 Dossier re-sent to agency after corrections
11/21/08 Dossier received in Ethiopia - Officially on the waiting list!
3/05/09 - Received referral for Baby E.!!!
3/06/09 - Accepted referral for Baby E.!!!
4/30/09 - Case submitted to court, assigned to court group K.
5/13/09 - Assigned court date of June 8.
6/08/09 - Court - no cover letter. Fail.
6/11/09 - Assigned new court date of June 29
6/29/09 - New court date - PASSED!!!
7/04/09 - Assigned Embassy date: Aug 12
8/06/09 - Going to Ethiopia to bring home my baby boy!
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I Would Gather Children
Some would gather money,
Along the path of life.
Some would gather roses,
And rest from worldly strife.
But I would gather children,
From among the thorns of sin.
I would seek a golden curl,
And a freckled, toothless grin.
For money cannot enter,
In that land of endless day.
And roses that are gathered,
Soon will wilt along the way.
But oh, the laughing children,
As I cross the sunset sea.
And the gates swing wide to heaven,
I can take them in with me!
-author unknown
Along the path of life.
Some would gather roses,
And rest from worldly strife.
But I would gather children,
From among the thorns of sin.
I would seek a golden curl,
And a freckled, toothless grin.
For money cannot enter,
In that land of endless day.
And roses that are gathered,
Soon will wilt along the way.
But oh, the laughing children,
As I cross the sunset sea.
And the gates swing wide to heaven,
I can take them in with me!
-author unknown
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