Fix Your Eyes on What Is Unseen

03 May 2009

Psalm 119:116

:pray:

Sustain me according to your promise, and I will live;
do not let my hopes be dashed. :pray:

2 comments:

Margaret and Cordel said...: HUGS HUGS and more HUGS!!! You WILL get through this....the Lord is carrying you RIGHT NOW!!! Praying that this is the week that ends your wait and that you are getting your call to travel ASAP!!!; May 3, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Margaret and Cordel said...: Ok, so is it bad that I have checked back here like 10 times today??? Thinking of you....LOTS OF HUGS!!!; May 4, 2009 at 4:18 PM

Timeline

10/2006 Begin thinking and praying about adoption
8/07 Learn of Bethany opening services to Ethiopia, decide to use Bethany as agency
9/2007 Contacted Bethany, attended informational meeting
11/2007 Preapplication approved
12/6/2007 Formal application approved
12/14/2007 First Home Study Meeting
12/19/2007 Passports Received
12/27/2007 Second Home Study Meeting
1/16/2008 FINAL home study meeting!
1/18/08 Ordered New Birth Certificates
1/28/08 I-600A sent to CIS w/ HS
2/14/08- Fingerprinting
2/27/08 I-171H
2/29/08 Dossier sent to Bethany HQ
3/19/08 Dossier to ETHIOPIA!
3/24/08 Officially waiting for our referral
9/5/08 REFERRAL of Mikiyas Yared "Jaren" 3 months old
10/3/08 We are notified of Jaren's death
10/7/08 We feel that God still wants us in this adoption process, so we notify the agency that we will continue.
10/14/08 REFERRAL! 3.5 month old boy!
We have named him Esias
10/18/08 Mailed acceptance papers for Esias!
12/24/08 Court Date #1 Delayed due to MOWA
01/29/09 Court Date #2 Delayed again due to MOWA
03/26/09 Court Date #3 Unsuccessful
04/16/09 Court Date #4 Unsuccessful
04/27/09 Court Date #5 Unsuccessful
05/04/09 COURT APPROVED!
06/04/09 Leave for Ethiopia!
06/06- GOT HIM!
06/09/09 Embassy Appt
06/12/09 Home FOREVER! Esias Tesfaye Grimes!
01/2011 Readoption in the state of Iowa! Name change complete!