Getting Started

Welcome to our blog! We thought it would be fun to keep our family and friends current with the latest developments in our journey to adopt a baby girl from Ethiopia. We signed on with our adoption agency (Children's House International) in September and completed our home study in October. So far all we have is a big stack of notarized papers ready to send to Ethiopia -- well, almost ready. We're still waiting for our 171 (permission from the department of homeland security to adopt an orphan). We should've had that by now except that it turns out my fingerprints are "unacceptable". I actually drove over the mountains to Yakima twice to have them printed, but after the last time they asked me to get a police clearance letter instead. Hopefully the 171 will come in the mail soon so that we can finally get the papers sent off!

I'm not sure about the timing after that, but I'm thinking we'll get matched with a baby in the spring and then we'll travel to Ethiopia next summer. We'll just have to wait and see!