Monday, January 14, 2008

Our Ethiopian Adoption Journey (in a nutshell)

We started our Ethiopian adoption process in May of 2007. Since we had already gone through one home study previously and had some experience in getting the dossier in order, we moved pretty quickly. By the time Lifelink completed our homestudy we had pretty much all of our paper work ready. We submitted everything to AGCI and things went fast although never quite fast enough for us. Our dossier was sent in August and we were officially on the waiting list for a 1-12 month Ethiopian Princess at the end of August. We received our referral for our beautiful daughter on October 29th. Martha. AGCI received our acceptance documents on November 8. We got our travel dates on December 19th....What a great Christmas present. We traveled on January 5th and returned with Gracie Martha on January 11.
Here starts our new life as a family of 6. We are so thankful and blessed.

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