We had a lot to celebrate this week with Diwali approaching and confirmation that we are officially registered with India requesting permission to adopt! 🥳 There is very little for us to do at this stage of the adoption process. Paperwork gathering is on hold until approval is received from both the US and India.…

Happy Monday! Due to some technical difficulties at our agency, we are still waiting with held breath to hear that our application with India is complete. Still, as we wait, I started to look back on how things went in 2020 vs. today. I can’t wait to see how things go with our US application…

Happy Tuesday everyone. I’m behind schedule for an update, but am here with very happy news! Last Tuesday we thought we were futilely checking for updates on Sam’s birth certificate only to be shocked with a tracking number. The birth certificate arrived on Wednesday (yes I did push refresh on that tracking status many, many…

Well, it had to happen eventually, didn’t it? 😉 We were notified last Monday that the department handling Sam’s birth certificate was working on orders from 8/13 (our request was submitted on 9/10 yikes!). We were in denial and checked our mail box every day (ok, multiple times a day) in hopes that the update…

This past week has been some kind of a rollercoaster, I think. After finding out we can request approval to adopt from India, we began furiously gathering documents only to discover one major roadblock: my birth certificate. As it turns out, mine would take a super long time to arrive. As in months. Imagine my…

Whew. The first major effort for adopting our little girl is complete. The Home Study was officially finalized on Monday the 8th (yes, a whole 5 hours after I posted last week!). I can’t help looking at these timelines again and again. We have had such incredible people supporting us and helping us reach this…

It is complicated comparing this adoption process and timeline with our first adoption. In late 2019 I woke up from my second endometrial removal surgery, still in the “coming out of anesthesia” room, and I knew three things:1. This surgery actually worked2. I would finally get to live without pain3. It was time to start…

Happy Labor Day! Amara is thrilled to have an extra day out of school and we are so happy for a bonus weekend day to spend together. We want to be intentional to soak up the enjoyment of these moments even though we are anticipating and excited for the future of being a family of…

Ok, I feel a little bit like I’m living in a dream right now. It has been exactly 21 days since we applied for approval to begin the adoption process with our agency. And guys, we have already completed everything we are required to do for finalizing our home study. This is a 2-4 month…

The wait to adopt is a long one. In these first weeks, we have been amazed and encouraged by the kindness and excitement of the people we are depending on to complete paperwork. They make us feel like they carry the same urgency we have to finalize their part of the paperwork. We are so…