Category: Adoption

We found out today that as of August 12, we have provisional approval for our daughter’s immigration into the US. Basically it is the last big step before she’s home. We would expect to be able to bring her home in 1 to 2 months now! Very excited about the news. God is so good.

Three years ago, our family was camping on the islands of Lake Champlain here in Vermont. I remember we had some rain and were thankful for the wooden lean-to that was on our tent site. We basically set up some of the tent parts in the lean-to. We spent the weekend exploring the beaches and […]

Well, at this point, not too much has happened since our last update, however, things may be about to! I’m getting pretty antsy to get on the plane. Our daughter is still stuck on Ellis Island- metaphorically speaking. You know, that island off of NYC where immigrants used to have to spend endless weeks as […]

Many of you have wanted to know how things are going. They are going as expected. Our daughter is in Africa, we are in the U.S. and we are all waiting for the immigration process to be finished so we can go bring her home. It could take 3 more weeks, or many months if […]

Friday was another long day to Cape Coast. By the way, it is about 21/2 to 3 hours to this city that has the court house so as you can imagine, between the two families we had 3 very tired kids who were REALLY off their schedule. We started out just as early. Our little […]

Today we left at 5:30 to go to Cape Coast for our adoption court appointment. We made great time, got there early, waited 3 hours and then found out that our judge was sick and could maybe see us tomorrow. Very disappointed but this happens sometimes. So, we will be going tomorrow and catching our […]

Hi all! Just a regular old day here. Spent a lot of it with our little girl at the hotel. Our first couple of friends flew home today and a new couple came. Very fun to have other adoptive parents around. We all will be going to court together to officially adopt our kids TOMORROW! […]

Yesterday, we were expecting to be able to sleep in little bit as the other family was going to be going to court for their adoption and we didn’t have anything until around noon. We got to bed late the night before but then got woken up at dawn to go for a walk. The […]

This morning we were able to sleep in. One interesting thing here is that the power in the city is not consistent. Shower when you can. We found out this morning that we probably have a better chance at showering at night. We went to meet most of the agency team this morning, picked up […]

What a wonderful day! We had asked the in-country agency team if we could visit an African church while we were here. SO, last night our case worker said we could all go with her (another family is here too) AND she’d pick up their child and ours before!!! We met our little girl and […]