Some very exciting news!!!

Well, I am very sorry for the lack of updates in the last couple of months!!

We have had a bit of a change in plans.... I am pregnant with twins!!! Yes, this came as a major shock, but we are very excited about it! So, our adoption is now put on hold...We for sure want to do another adoption in the future, so Jada can have a sibling from Ethiopia.. just not sure when!!!

So, maybe I will update my blog on our pregnancy once in a while!?

:)

Well, as of tomorrow, we will have not internet for a while... We are going to update what we have and get a faster connection. So, it might be a while for my updates. If anything really important happens, I will update from my parents house!

Well....well....well....

Guess what showed up today???? 2 months late.... Low and Behold our fingerprints have found their way back home! I was totally shocked when I opened the mailbox.... Hmm...now we have everything we need, except for our Homestudy update which won't take long.

Given Up.... sigh.....

So, I emailed our guy at the fingerprint place and he confirmed that the fingerprints were mailed to our correct address 3 weeks ago... So, I have come to the conclusion that they are lost somewhere between here and Ontario... Part of me just wants to hope that they will come and the other part of me just feels like not thinking about going to re-do them. What frustrates me the most is that we have to send them by Registered mail and then they mail them back by regular mail.. this makes no sense....

Hmmm.... not sure what to do.... We still do have to wait for other stuff, so it is not holding anything up, but we still do need them...

One year ago tomorrow....

Our lives were forever changed with one glimpse of a beautiful, precious little girl named Yenenesh Tsegaye....

I wanted to post my entry from our referral day and the day after, just to remember that wonderful day!


Thursday, June 21, 2007

ITS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my word!!!! Marty and I found out this morning that we have a little baby girl! We are beyond excited and overjoyed!!!!!!!!! She was born March 2!!!!!!! Isn't she adorable!!! Thank you for your prayers!!!!!!!


Friday, June 22, 2007

"The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with Joy!" Psalm 126:3

Well, now that my heart rate is slowly going back to normal after the excitement of yesterday, I would love to tell more about our referral day! I always enjoyed reading other peoples, so I want to share our little story!!

So, Marty drove me to work yesterday, which he rarely does b/c I am in the city, but he had a meeting, so we carpooled. I had said to him a few days ago that it would be so great to hear about our baby on Thursday b/c then we could be together, and we had talked about on the way yesterday!

Then, I get into my office and there is a note on my computer saying that Adoption Services had called WEDNESDAY at 9 am and I begin to panic wondering why I had not got the message from the morning before!! So, I run to talk to the secretary and she said that she knows nothing about it and that someone else took the message. So, with my heart pounding I call back and the lady on the other end says "we have a beatiful picture of your baby" and then I start to cry and say "what is it" and she says a "beautiful girl", and I am like "a girl"!? Then, I really started to cry!! Then, we talk for a bit more and I was writing stuff down, so I would not forget!

So, we got off and I called Marty and said come back to my work, we have our referral and they are sending it on e-mail!! Marty came back like 2 sec. later and we opened to the e-mail together and saw our daughter for the first time! Then, I called other important people, trying to get the words out we have have a baby girl!!Then, yesterday afternoon, we went to sign the official acceptance form... The lady said are you sure about this like 3x and I am thinking YES, give me the pen!!!!!


Wow, life can change so quickly and goes by so fast!!! We have had Jada home for over 7 mths. and sometimes we still can't believe it!

Thx for the support and prayers from family and friends, especially my fellow adoptive friends!!


:)


Ps... still no fingerprints...super annoyed, but lets not talk about that!

Wow, so on a positive note....

I just wanted to post about something nice that happened today. So, totally out of the blue, we got an email from our Caseworker from IA, "just because she was wondering how we were doing with everything and if we had any questions.." Honestly, I was so suprised!!

It was such a nice email to get... Sometimes it is hard not to feel like just another family on the big long list. For those of us in the adoption agency world, sometimes it is easier to complain and be negative about them... So, just something nice! :)

"Supposed" to be one their way back to us...

So, last week I got a phone call from the Fingerprint place to inform me that they fingerprints had been returned to them AGAIN... At first I was confused b/c we had given them the correct address....But whoever mailed them out to us for the second time used the legal address again. I was like NO WAY!!! So, they were calling to confirm our mailing address... (I had called them twice with it and Marty had emailed them!!!) So, they told me that it would be corrected and mailed out that day!

Honestly, I am not usually such a whiner/complainer/venter on my blog, but come on, these are employees of the RCMP....

Let you know when I have them.... If they show up!!!!!