Wow! If adoption wasn't already expensive enough! Today news broke that Ethiopia will now require adopting parents to travel twice before the adoption is completed. The first travel we will meet our child and attend the court hearing. This was not required before today. We will have to leave our child behind and wait for our Visa appointment with the Embassy to return to bring our child home. This has a lot cons but has pros as well. We will get to meet our child a little sooner and we will not be required to re-adopt our child once bringing them home to the united states. This is the same process that Haiti required so we are familiar with this process but Ethiopia is much more expensive to travel to being that it is so far away compared to Haiti. This now adds about $6000 to our total of $19,000 we still need to raise. The first trip we will both be required to travel but most likely the second trip only one spouse will be required so worst case scenario David will travel alone to bring our child home. Yes I said David because most of you know me well enough to know God is stretching me to make the first trip! (ha!ha!) Basically, we are not worried about it at this time. We know that God is totally in control and he is in the details. We'll just have to be patient and continue moving forward to let God continue writing HIS story through our adoption journey!
Please be in prayer for our home study to be wrapped up and approved in the next couple of weeks. We are right there at the end of it trying to cross every T and dot every I. We have a deadline for a grant we are applying for that is due April 15 and we can't apply again until October 15 if we miss it. We have to have the approved home study in order to apply.
Only six days including today remaining for our current Donation Raffle. If you've been meaning to donate for an entry please do so soon before time runs out! We are at 53 entries! God is so amazing! We give him all the glory for how far we have come on this journey! Please spread the word and help us reach 100 entries by Monday March 15th.
In HIS Grip!
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