it has been a long couple of months. the things I thought we would breeze through for the adoption took longer then I expected. (makes me nervous for how long it will take for the things that usually take a long time) the home study visits went quickly but the writing and reviewing has taken sooooo long! finally on dec30 we got to review it ourselves and sign off on it. now it goes for approval from Dillon (our placing agency) then the state. then we can finally send it to immigration for their pre-approval! sheesh! and in the mean time we are sending in a letter of intent (LOI) to China for pre-approval (PA). that should only take a couple of weeks while the US pre-approval takes up to 2months!! uggg! this is so frustrating!
please pray with us that these approvals come faster then average.
so, I will TRY to be patient as we wait for all these things. we will begin some adoption education in Feb. at least that will make me feel like I am doing something towards the goal.
fundraising isn't going so well as I had hoped either.... and that's fine. we know God will provide. I think brendan may get to work a bit of overtime in the next month or so, so that will help. we have gotten one donation so far, which we are so grateful for. we will be starting to build our puzzle with that donation.
I have been collecting spare change in a half gallon jar. it's almost full. I can't wait to take it in and see how much it is. I deal mostly in cash so I just take any and all change I get and dump it in the bottom of my purse, then when I get home I dump that in the jar :)
it would be great, if anyone else out there deals in cash and wants to join me in filling a jar, we'd love the support :) I'd be happy to give you a big jar like mine or you can just use any jar you have.
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