Category: Adoption

This morning Sam and I went to the police station to be fingerprinted again to update our FBI background check. This was our fifth time being fingerprinted during this process, and probably won’t be the last. But this was our second time for FBI, as they have to be updated every six months. They want…

I knew that a committee meets to decide on a good match (family) for each child. I knew that the committee consists of, I believe, the orphanage director, reps from ICBF, a social worker/child advocate, and maybe others. But I didn’t know if the private Casas always go in chronological order. I wanted to know…

We found out today that we were officially submitted to Ayudame (orphanage in Bogota) on May 14. I’m not sure why we didn’t get this information until today. It appears there has been some miscommunication. Being in this situation, where any tad bit of information is like gold, I expect to know when there are…

A letter to our future adopted daughter on Father’s Day 2012. Dear Hope, I’m writing today to tell you about your daddy. How I got so blessed with him, I’ll never know. And you, in turn, will receive the same blessing in your life. Your daddy is the most caring man I’ve ever met. You…

We were told our dossier would take approximately 6-8 weeks for it to be translated into Spanish after it arrived in Colombia. Luckily we just found out, after only 4 weeks, that translation is done and our dossier is at a private casa being reviewed. The decision to submit there or not will be decided by…

When we first decided on Colombia, learning Spanish became a top priority. Our new daughter, being 3 or 4 yrs old, will have a lot of language. We will need to learn so we can communicate with her in those critical first few months. We also want her to be able to keep her Spanish,…

Many of you don’t know this yet, but Sam and I are expecting our second daughter. After 6 months of seemingly endless and overwhelming  requirements, Sam, Raleigh, and I are settling in for the long 6-18month wait for her to be matched with our family. She will be 3 or 4 years old, and she…

I neglected to update when things happened, so I’ll fill you in now. I really want to get better at blogging to be able to keep a good record of every step – for three reasons. First, reading other’s blogs during this process has helped us to know what we can expect each step of…

Feeling pretty confident (and quite impatient) in all of the paperwork I’ve compiled and organized in the last 6 months, I decided to take my chances and go ahead to the Secretary of State today and have everything apostilled. The worse that can happen is that Ms. K will tell me I need to change/fix…

Ive been so excited anticipating Ms. K’s return to the office today. I sent her an email last night letting her know that I went ahead with the apostilling and as long as everything we scanned and emailed her looks great then it’s all ready to go, the original dossier and a complete copy. Well…apparently…