Paper Pregnancy

My organization is on point this time around!

We have now entered the part of an adoption that has been affectionately named the "paper pregnancy".  We have entered a world of signatures, prying questions about our family, copies of official documents, notaries, and certifications.  

This paperchase is different for me than in the past.  I have 6 kids this time around who's lives dont stop because we are adopting. I still have to do school, change diapers, and calm attitudes.  This time around I find myself regularly praying for peace and patience.  I also find myself staying up until 2am becuase soemthing HAS to get done....they are all so very worth it!

Today we got to send off our first packet to our dossier(profile we sent to Europe) off the the Secretary of State to be certified. When that comes back it will be the first pieces of documentation that gets sent off to another country.  By the way we are allowed to share pictures but can not share the country that our little one is coming from. We also sent our I-600A application to immigration requesting permission to bring another little one into this wonderful country and make her an American citizen.

At the same time we are working hard to get all of our home study documents together so we can quickly finish our home study.  We are planning on applying for several grants and praying we get some.  We cant apply for grants until our home study is finished so we are really working hard to get it done as quickly as possible.

This adoption should move fairly quickly and we will likely be traveling for our first trip to Europe in 6 months!  Most of the fees of this adoption are due at that time so the pressure is one to get things done!  Stay tuned for some fun fundraisers we will be doing in the near future.  We are planning on selling those wonderful sheets again and a sweet sweet friend is also brainstorming some wonderful fundraisers she is going to help us with.

We are blessed to have found a child in a country that has very reasonable fees compared to our other adoptions so we are really hoping and praying that we do not have to go into any more debt for this adoption...so far God has been providing like a BOSS!!!

The kids doing their part.  They have to draw pictures of them, their house, and their family.  For some reason all my kids drew pictures of us in a tent???

http://www.handofhelpinadoption.org/2017/02/pehl.html