Our family is really looking forward to Christmas this year. As we mentioned in our September update, Margarita is able to come back to our home for Winter Hosting, thanks to the awesome team at Host Orphans Worldwide! We are counting down the days now… only 3 left! THREE DAYS! Read more…
After a few weeks of waiting, it seems that lots of details are coming together this week! In the past few days, we have reached a couple of really significant milestones in the adoption process and wanted to post an update to celebrate! Home Study Complete Our last meeting with Read more…
It’s amazing how the past month has flown by, and yet not very much has happened on the adoption front. During the first few weeks of October, we had our final visit with our home study social worker and completed our medical paperwork. Then, we moved into a bit of Read more…
Yesterday, we passed one of the bigger hurdles for our adoption paperwork: we completed our medical health forms! Praise God!! Our adoption agency told us this is one of the more difficult steps to complete, often because doctors tend to fill out the forms incorrectly, and because each piece of Read more…
Across the spectrum of personalities and giftings, there’s a rare group of people who love paperwork and administrative tasks. If you give these folks a spreadsheet… or a seventeen-page application form with six optional addendum sheets, they are in heaven. Although Christy is one of those people, the amount of Read more…
A week ago today, we took Margarita to the airport for the long trip back to Ukraine. It’s possibly one of the most painful things our family has done together. You might think that it was only hard for Christy and me, but our entire family felt the pain of Read more…
Today, we put our adoption application paperwork in the mail to officially start the adoption process! This was an exciting step – we had to sign all sorts of agreements and our first agency fee is included too! 😬
Preparing for hosting was a bit of a whirlwind, with a few online training meetings, books to read, and mostly practical planning around our house to do. We moved the boys’ beds to the basement, and they were thrilled to set up their “new room” together. Some friends who adopted Read more…
After we realized the door was closed, it seemed like the summer opened up for us. Christy and I discussed plans for camping as a family, with the hope of a short road-trip as well. But a little more than a week after we watched the deadline pass for summer Read more…
Early this spring, I was doing some gardening work with my brother in my backyard when he excitedly mentioned his plans to host an orphan from Ukraine over the summer. I had heard that he and his wife were considering orphan hosting and thought it was a cool idea…