We received our approval from China! Here she is:
We are thanking God for this happy day!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day to Us
Love makes a family of FIVE!
We received our approval from China! Here she is:
We are thanking God for this happy day!
We received our approval from China! Here she is:
We are thanking God for this happy day!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Seen and Heard
Faith: I'm hungrier than Davis.
Me: How do you know how hungry Davis is?
Faith: Davis, are you 10 hungry?
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Faith: Can I take the bunny to China?
Me: I don't think we'll have room for it.
Faith: Well, I'm packing my own soup-case.
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And this one happens on average four times a day -
Davis: Mama!! . . . MAMA!! . . . . Mama!!
Me: What?
Davis: {big grin} Apple.
Me: How do you know how hungry Davis is?
Faith: Davis, are you 10 hungry?
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Faith: Can I take the bunny to China?
Me: I don't think we'll have room for it.
Faith: Well, I'm packing my own soup-case.
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And this one happens on average four times a day -
Davis: Mama!! . . . MAMA!! . . . . Mama!!
Me: What?
Davis: {big grin} Apple.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Blown Away
By this story today: Go and See what the Lord has done for this family.
And don't miss another side of it here.
Also, its kinda cool that their boy was wearing a very familiar outfit in his referral picture. . .
Monday, February 7, 2011
Well-documented
Our dining room table is covered with all the papers we need to send in at the moment to move our adoption process along. Right now we are renewing our visa application that will enable us to bring Pearl home - a visa we first applied for in January of 2008 and received approval for in March of that year! These expire every 18-months, so this is our second renewal. Another funny(?) part of this process is that our fingerprints expire as well, so we will need to travel to Atlanta to get new fingerprints taken to accompany this application. The mention of fingerprinting makes me a little nervous, since it was a problem in the fingerprint renewal that caused us issues in Ethiopia. We are hoping that this renewal process will take no longer than the 45-day time frame we were given by immigration.
We received a pre-approval from China last week regarding our adoption of our baby girl. This means that they have received our request and that it has been forwarded to the correct department that will make the final decision about our application. We are hoping to receive their answer within the next few weeks.
One thing that is nice is that just about everything I needed for this paper-gathering was in our files already. We have a bunch of copies of EVERYTHING - our own vital records department. I may charge myself $25 per page to surrender these.
We received a pre-approval from China last week regarding our adoption of our baby girl. This means that they have received our request and that it has been forwarded to the correct department that will make the final decision about our application. We are hoping to receive their answer within the next few weeks.
One thing that is nice is that just about everything I needed for this paper-gathering was in our files already. We have a bunch of copies of EVERYTHING - our own vital records department. I may charge myself $25 per page to surrender these.
Friday, January 21, 2011
We've Found a Treasure
And we are willing to share. But not able just yet. What we can say is. . .
WE GOT A CALL!
On Monday night at 11 pm we received a phone call from our agency saying that they had a baby girl for us to consider.
An eight-month-old baby girl!
Her picture and information about her appeared in our email a short while later.
I prayed that she would not be a stranger to us upon sight, and He gave us that peace. To us, she seemed immediately our baby. (I feel compelled here to add that of course we weren't focused on this first sight of her as a deciding factor, but I was very glad that she seemed familiar, in an odd way, to us from the start.)
We filled out our official "Referral Acceptance" - our, "Please, Yes, We want her in our family" paperwork - and it went to China Wednesday.
So hopefully we will hear from China an official "Yes" to our "Yes" in a few weeks.
And then we can share her picture here and have a public celebration of the newest Bullington. Our Pearl.
WE GOT A CALL!
On Monday night at 11 pm we received a phone call from our agency saying that they had a baby girl for us to consider.
An eight-month-old baby girl!
Her picture and information about her appeared in our email a short while later.
I prayed that she would not be a stranger to us upon sight, and He gave us that peace. To us, she seemed immediately our baby. (I feel compelled here to add that of course we weren't focused on this first sight of her as a deciding factor, but I was very glad that she seemed familiar, in an odd way, to us from the start.)
We filled out our official "Referral Acceptance" - our, "Please, Yes, We want her in our family" paperwork - and it went to China Wednesday.
So hopefully we will hear from China an official "Yes" to our "Yes" in a few weeks.
And then we can share her picture here and have a public celebration of the newest Bullington. Our Pearl.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wait and Watch and Wait and Watch
We have been waiting mostly patiently.
Waiting on our girl.
Our first child in mind (since summer of '04!)
who will be our third child in fact.
And now there is hope.
That she may be seen soon.
And we may have her home.
THIS SPRING or SUMMER!
Waiting on our girl.
Our first child in mind (since summer of '04!)
who will be our third child in fact.
And now there is hope.
That she may be seen soon.
And we may have her home.
THIS SPRING or SUMMER!
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