Sunday, April 8, 2007

Paper Pregnant!

We are officially paper pregnant! We just got word that our application for adopting our girl from Kazakhstan was accepted. We are so excited!!

At this point, the paperwork starts. We have a lot of work in front of us and we know that it will be challenging. I think the biggest obstacle will be finding/making the available time to complete it all. Both Amy and I have been working fairly long hours recently. Still, we're not worried about it...it's one of the many opportunities to give Him our burdens during this whole process.

Next steps: contracting a Home Study agency, filing our I-600A (Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition), and getting assigned a Family Coordinator from OAA.

On another note - today is Easter! My friend Mike was in town and we all had a lot of fun eating an early dinner and hanging out at Amy's parents' place after church.

God Bless,
Phil & Amy

1 comments:

Allison said...

Congratulations! Our two children were adopted from Kaz in the summer of 2005. They were 7 months when we first met them, 9 months when they arrived home and turn 2 1/2 at the end of this month. We had a GREAT experience.

Best wishes.
The Donohoes
http://donohoefamily.blogspot.com