USCIS Packet Received

We were notified last week that the USCIS received our packet of  information - yahoo!!    Now we have to wait for another document to come in the mail for us to have a scheduled time for our "biometrics to be electronically captured" (translation = fingerprinted).  We are watching the mail daily, enthusiastic to move forward towards bringing our little one(s) home.

Although not pregnant physically, our hearts are growing in anticipation of bringing more children into our family.  When I was expecting my first two kids, I would daydream about holding them, playing with them, cuddling. . . and watching them grow.  And now, I find myself daydreaming again...but it's a little different this time around not knowing if we'll have a boy or girl....one or two...a baby... (you get the idea).    I'm grateful to the Lord, daily, that our hearts continue to swell with eager excitement of meeting and loving the new little people of our family.   :)


Hopefully I'll have some more news soon!!!

USCIS Packet - On It's Way!!!

After waiting a week for copies of our notarized homestudy, we got the call yesterday that it was ready for us!!  I went straight from the adoption agency to the Post Office with our next packet of paperwork ready to go (we were waiting for the homestudy to send this).  It has been overnighted and should be to it's destination today by noon.

This packet is going to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  It sounds like this will be another waiting process of around 8 weeks (give or take several weeks).   We are just happy to be moving forward!!!  :)

What Our Kids Thought - Part II

Another way our kids expressed their enthusiam about the adoption was wanting to learn more about Ethiopian culture and language right away.  We checked out some books from the library, including an Amharic dictionary.

When I went to kiss KJ goodnight the day we got this book, she showed me her notebook of how she was practicing words that might be important to learn - 'Brother'.  'Mother'.  'Sister'. . . .

My heart was especially blessed, though, when she pointed to some of the words she copied and said, "Mom, I copied 'love', 'I' and 'you'....so I can tell them (her new brother or sister), 'I love you'".