Donaldson Delights: He Paid the Price

Friday, April 22, 2011

Thank you Jesus for the price you paid. God help me to live daily in light of your mercy and grace.

Thanks Emily for posting this.

Adoption Update: Our Visa 37 was sent yesterday. Great News!

Our Adoption Timeline

Fall '08: Began looking into adoption

2/8/09 Prayed as a family and made the decision to adopt

6/2/09 Homestudy with Gateway Woods

6/08-9/09 Worked on our dossier (paperwork and appointments)

End of July Homestudy complete

9/18/09 Attended adoption training

9/19/09 Handed over our sealed dossier

10/2/09 Paperwork arrives in Ethiopia after passing through Ethiopian Embassy in D.C. and we officially begin our wait for a referral!

1/25/10 Received a referral for a sibling set!!

2/5/10 After much prayer, emotion and info gathering..we let the referral go. We begin waiting again.

3/2010 Switch agencies and begin paper chase again

5/21/2010 Paper chase complete: Mailed our notarized, sealed dossier to our agency..Yeah!!

6/8/10 We are officially a waiting family!!!

8/20/10 We are paper pregnant with siblings!!! YIPPIE

11/23/10 We have a court date of January 25th 2011

1/25/11 We Passed Court!!! Now we wait for our Embassy date that will determine our trip to bring them home.

5/1/11 Leaving for Africa to finally bring our angels home!

5/4/11 Embassy Date

5/6/11 Heading back Home

5/8/11 Happy Mother's Day...All my babies together...So glad to be a mommy of 5!

A whisper in our heart has led to an adventure