Adoption news; we received a bill from AAI for our updated homestudy. It will be $503. So that will be mailed tomorrow, and hopefully we will have our homestudy by Friday. Then we will mail it off with our I800a form with $670. Got a love that money flying out the door! Please continue to pray that we will recieve our approval from the American government in a timely fashion and that we will receive our referral in the near future. If we receive our referral in January, Calvin should be home by May. If we receive a refferal in July we should have Calvin home by Christmas. What a Christmas present. Will let you know when we recieve our approval.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Neonatal intensive care unit..
I am very excited. I am going to the NICU at the local hospital in our area and get to see the babies and what goes on there. I am hoping to volunteer and hold babies, or talk to the babies in the hospital. I was talking with a friend that I pray someone is holding our son and loving him until we get him. She then mentioned that there are some babies in the hospital that need this too, because the parents live to far to do this daily or they are in foster care (she is a nurse). So that is what I am going to do. I am going to hold babies, pray over them and love on them. The other new happening is I am going to start training to run a 5K in May. Never thought I would ever say that.
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Celeste,
What an awesome way to spend sometime. I'm glad that the HS and 800A is complete and it seems money is always flying out our door. I have enjoyed this "waiting" time to start to pay off our expenses from the inital phase. I would be so excited for you if a referral came in Jan!!!
Sooo, have you requested a child??
Renae
Celeste,
Our oldest son was born with some complications and spent the first week of life in the NICU. I never left his side...refusing to go home. My heart ached for the little ones that never had anyone there to hold them. I vowed that someday I would come back and do exactly that! I am so excited for you! You will love it! What an incredible blessing you will be for those little babies and the prayers you will petition on their behalf already give me goosebumps! :-)
Renae, no we didn't request a sn child after much research, prayer and talking to friends in the medical field. We are waiting on God for our son, trying not to be impatient. As to getting a referral in Jan, it is probably wishful thinking. We were told 12-18 months, it will be 12 months in January but I am thinking it will be more like 18 mths.
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