Welcome!
Since our last blog was entitled "Our SON in Bulgaria", we knew it just wasn't appropriate to document the journey to our daughter in Eastern Europe! (Poor planning on my part!)But here we are, on a...
View ArticleWho is Kally?
In 2002, in a small corner of an Eastern European country, a baby was born. She was born to an ethnically marginalized mother and a father who was no longer connected to her. She was born into...
View ArticleThe $11,000 Challenge
We have been given a tremendous opportunity to generate a significant portion of our adoption expenses. If we are able to meet this goal, our adoption - combined with what we have already invested on...
View ArticleWhere are we on the Road?
What's interesting about our adoption this time is how close we are to actually submitting our dossier to Kally's country. In one sense, it is very exciting. Because we've adopted before, some of the...
View ArticleSome new blog art!
A few little (but not so minor) changes to the blog, thanks to DesignerBlogs.com for doing it for us. You'll see at the top that there are buttons that will make it easy to share, join our Facebook...
View ArticleFingerprints & flu
In not-so-good-news, both of us have the flu. Thankfully the children don't have the flu, thank you flu shot! Sadly, we're dealing with high fevers and cold symptoms. We've had so much going on...
View ArticleDocuments!
Well thank heavens; our fingerprints AND one last birth certificate arrived yesterday. In the midst of our flu season here at home, this is welcome news indeed. We have just one pile of documents...
View ArticleOur dossier is on its way!
Yesterday, with GREAT relief, we finished the "paperchase" portion of the #RoadToKally . At last! It has been a long, arduous process; far more time consuming than with Joshua's adoption. Between the...
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T-Shirts and documents
Well.We are in the "dossier re-do" phase of our #RoadtoKally.Foreign governments often require very specific paperwork, and Kally's country is no different. In our case, Kally's country requires a...
View ArticleEaster Sunday
We celebrated Easter Sunday with family this past Sunday. It was of course a day filled with joy as we remembered the Resurrection and its meaning and impact. But as our kids and three of our nephews...
View Article4 days of tshirts and dossier re-dos!
Sometimes, as I consider the analogy of adoption as a "road", I try to imagine where on the road we are on. Maybe we're just approaching the acceleration ramp, preparing to enter the highway. Or maybe...
View ArticleTshirt update...and THANK YOU!
We have ended our "iAdopt" tshirt fundraiser. While we were 9 shirts short of our goal, we are so thankful for the support we have received from so many. Because we exceeded the "printing" goal, the...
View ArticleNo news (yet)
The Road to Kally is smooth at present. All of our documents (including the required edits) are now in Kally's country. We are waiting for the facilitators to translate these documents and present...
View ArticleJourney across the ocean
In less than a week, I will be boarding a flight to travel 4000 miles across the Atlantic ocean. Unfortunately, this visit does not involve getting to meet our precious little girl across the pond....
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We have news! Referral and more!
As we have repeatedly written, the Road to Kally is one that can be traffic-jammed and full of stops and starts. At other times, the road seems to zoom past at lightening speed. And here we are!...
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EIGHT DAYS
This time, 8 days from now, we'll be at around 35,000 feet streaking across the ocean at 500+ miles per hour towards Austria. From there, we will connect on a flight to Kally's country. After this...
View ArticleWhy we're not using Reece's Rainbow....
DISCLAIMER: If you read nothing else of this blog entry – not a single other part – read this: Nothing said here is meant to imply that most of the individuals who support, advocate, or even use...
View ArticleWe are funded!!!
If you have not read it elsewhere, through the grace of God and the generosity of so many, we have enough funds to travel to meet Kally. Between donations, our own accumulated funds, and the sale of...
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Our trip!
A long-awaited update for some perhaps! Some of you may have followed us privately during our trip via other means, so there may not be much new information here, but the blogger world needs to know...
View ArticleWinding down summer
It is the last few weeks of summer. In less than two weeks, our daughter will enter kindergarten and our son will resume his language-based classroom preschool. It will be a time of adjustment as we...
View ArticleBlessings Abound - An Update At Last
It has been a long and quiet road.We visited sweet Kally in July, and it is nearly October. Nothing has happened. It has been hard. Knowing that Kally knows us and is waiting for us is even...
View ArticleQuestions.
Collaborating together to write an entry as this next chapter unfolds. We've received questions and we want to answer them.1. How much time has adding this child cost to your adoption of...
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