You can help to bring her home!

Dear family and friends,

You can play a part in bringing our daughter home. As with our son, we have created necklaces we would like to sell as a fundraiser to help in this process. Each necklace was completely designed by Maren and Greg and made by Maren's hand. We would be humbled if you would consider helping us to reach our goal.

We would like to sell the brown and red necklaces for $30 each and the grey necklace for $15 each. We are happy to ship it to you anywhere you might want it sent, however, we would like to be so bold as to ask that we be able to add the cost of the shipping to your order. We know the cost is higher that you would expect to pay in a store, but we ask that you remember the purpose for the purchase. Also please remember that you cannot purchase these in a store as they are exclusively designed to help bring S home.

We thank you very much for your help and are touched by your thoughtfulness.

Minor delay

We got back info from the USCIS stating that our I-800 application was incomplete. It is frustrating because the directions were unclear. Imagine that. Government directions that are unclear. It is also disappointing because our adoption agency also checked it over prior to us sending it, and they didn't find anything either. Oh well. I guess we can only do what we need to do.

Life is busy. God is good.

Good grief. Much has happened since our last post. We have officially completed our dossier as well as our placing agreement packet. Our dossier is in India with the placing agency. They (and we) are awaiting the completion of our I-800 with the U.S. Government. This document is what the U.S. uses to approve a specific child to enter the country. Once that document is received, the placing agency in India will then send off our dossier to the Indian government where our case will begin to wind its way through the Indian courts. We have been told to expect 3-5 court dates in India. We have given someone there power of attorney to manage our court affairs there. That is weird. I know it is what is needed, however, usually a POA is given to someone you know, you know?!

We are all very excited here. We hope to travel in 5-8 months. I suspect that the next several months will go quickly and slowly all at the same time. Can't wait, that is for sure!