I found this on someone else's blog, and thought it was so true!
You Know Your Adopting When.....
Top Ten Ways You Know You Are Adopting Internationally:
10. The fact that there are 143 million children without a parent to kiss them goodnight has made you lose sleep.
9. You can't watch Adoption Stories on TLC without sobbing.
8.You spend free time surfing blogs about families who have experienced the blessing of adoption.
7. You have welcomed a social worker into the most private parts of your life.
6. You have no idea how you will afford to adopt but stepped out in faith anyway, knowing where God calls you, He will provide.
5. You are prepared to take an airplane ride half-way around the world and return with a child you just met.
4. You know what the word "Dossier" means, and you can actually pronounce it!
3. You realize DNA has little to do with love and family and that welcoming a child into your heart and family is one of the most important legacies you could ever leave on this earth.
2. You shudder when people say your child is so blessed/lucky that you adopted them, knowing full well you are the blessed/lucky one to have him or her in your life.-Author Unknown
1. You stare like a psycho at every child you come across that is the same ethnicity as your soon to be adopted child imagining the day you are united with your own.
Our Journey to add to our family through the blessing of adoption!
About Us
- Laura and Brad
- We have been married for 9 years and are parents to 2 precious girls, Sabine (6) and Mara (4). Enjoying life together in beautiful central TX!
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart I will be found by you....."
Jeremiah 29:11-13
Jeremiah 29:11-13
WHY ETHIOPIA
• 720,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS alone, and there are 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia.• One in six children die before their fifth birthday• 44% of the population of Ethiopia is under 15 years old• 60% of children in Ethiopia are stunted because of malnutrition
• Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school. 88% will never attend secondary school.• The median age in Ethiopia is 17.8 years• 1.5 million people are infected with AIDS (6th highest in the world)• Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa• In the 90s the population (3%) grew faster than food production (2.2%)• Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year no animals)• Coffee prices (Ethiopia’s only major export) fell 40-60% from 1998-2002.• Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000.• In 1993, after 30 long years of war, Eritrea broke from Ethiopia and became an independent nation leaving Ethiopia landlocked without any major seafaring ports.
Timeline
- July 14 Officially waiting for a referral! Finally!
- June 28 I 171A arrived!
- June 10 finished dossier documents minus CIS approval
- May 17 fingerprinted for CIS
- May 13 Gladney approved!
- March 25 recieved FBI clearances
- March 19 homestudy conducted by Amy
- Feb. 20 doctor's appointments
- Feb. 6 sent initial application to Gladney
- Jan. 25 sent I-600A application
Must Reads
- Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
- There is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene
4 comments:
I love this! And it is so true! I am in your Austin Ethiopia group, by the way:) I'm sure I will stalk your blog regularly!
That is awesome!
Hey Laura! I am so glad you have a blog now that i can stalk, i mean read! Jason and Toufiq should be home on wed. when things calm down we need to get together. i am sooo glad to have someone so close adopting from Ethiopia, our boys will be best of buds!
Hey Laura. What is your address? Ella's turning 4 and is having a ballerina party and would love to have you guys, my email is ash_flo@hotmail.com Hope your doing good!
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