Donaldson Delights: 3 Weeks Home

Monday, May 30, 2011

3 Weeks Home

We are all settling in more everyday and definitely getting a rhythm to our day.
Last week and this week Abey and Faith have been in swim lessons to prepare for a summer around water:

They LOVE swimming, Faith more so than Abey, and have the best teacher!!

Faith definitely has the concept of zero down as she opened up her underwear drawer tonight and said, "Look mom zero!" LOL Doing laundry for 7 is a load!!! Sorry Faith they are on their way.

Remembering our heros this Memorial Day.

2 comments:

Polly said...: Love your updates!! Hugs to the sweeties!! XOXO; June 4, 2011 at 9:18 AM
Rocky & Sue said...: Congratulations on your recent adoption! We're praying for you!
Sue & Rocky; June 6, 2011 at 9:51 PM

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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!