Updated homestudy Wed. night, just waiting for our child abuse clearances and going to update physicals in 1/2 hour. Its going to be a wild ride the next few weeks!! Stay tuned folks :-)
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." --Sir James M. Barrie ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Deja Vu
Feels like we been here before!!! New fingerprinting, updating paperwork and Homestudy change / updating this is all happening so fast and came up at the last minute. Stay tuned folks and pray for us!! I'll post updates
We're Back!!
We're Back!!
Friday, June 4, 2010
NEW HOPE
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
We have HOPE
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
We have HOPE
Friday, June 26, 2009
A New Hope
Wow its been a long time since we've posted!!!
But it has also been a long time since anything have happened adoption related.
We had pretty much had all but given up on adopting until today. Its still a long shot and we have a LONG LONG Ways to go and I'll post more if anything becomes of this.
Keep your fingers crossed and those Prayers coming.
Brian and Sandy
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
But it has also been a long time since anything have happened adoption related.
We had pretty much had all but given up on adopting until today. Its still a long shot and we have a LONG LONG Ways to go and I'll post more if anything becomes of this.
Keep your fingers crossed and those Prayers coming.
Brian and Sandy
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Doing it all Wrong?!?!!?!?
Woman swaps two kids for cockatoo, $175
Police in the southern US state of Louisiana have arrested a woman who allegedly traded two young children for an exotic bird and a bit of cash. Donna Greenwell, a 51-year-old long distance trucker, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and is being held in jail on a bond of $100,000 after she allegedly swapped a four- and five-year-old in her care for a cockatoo and $175. The story began several weeks ago when Greenwell pulled her cattle truck into a livestock dealer’s to make a delivery, Dupre said. A couple had put up a flier at the dealer’s, advertising a cockatoo they had for sale for $1,500. Ms Greenwell saw the picture of the cockatoo along with the phone number, and with her raising birds already, she called them up. The conversation started with buying the cockatoo but when Greenwell found out they were a childless couple, it led up to trading the bird for the kids. The deal was sealed, and Greenwell handed over a five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl to the Romeros in exchange for the bird and $175. The children weren’t even Greenwell’s biological offspring. afp
It's been so long since I've last posted anything, but there is nothing to post.
This time last year we were getting really excited, knowing our time to travel was coming soon. Little did we know that in the next few months to come we would lose two children.
This past Christmas was really hard for us, we though that we'd have our little girl home from Kazakhstan and we would be celebrating our 1st Christmas together.
Dec. 16th is also when our other child would have been born, A Christmas baby. The birth mother was planning on trying to have the baby on Dec 6th
It's been almost a year since we recieved the bad news from CHI and nothing has changed. Sandy was talking with a doctor about Adopting (many pregnant single girls not knowing what to do could have been told about us looking to Adopt). After 3 canceled appointments we found out he left the practice.
We've also talked with an Agency about domestic adoption but the $11,000 they wanted up front put an end to that.
Right now we really don't know what we want to do. Today was the 1st time in a really long time that I went to CHI's website to read the blogs only to be disgusted.
So many families having dossiers returned and nothing but trouble with trying to Adopt from Kaz. WHY!!! So many families want to adopt and so many children in need of a good home what is the PROBLEM!!!!
I just wish people could understand how painful for us families. The end of last year was REALLY hard for us. It was just to hard to be around children without getting upset and people couldn't understand why and would even get mad at us. We were even told "I didn't attend any Funeral so I don't know why your so upset"
I guess people can't understand what it's like to try so hard for so long only to have all your hopes and dreams crushed.
We might not of had a funeral but every day I feel like a part of me has died. Every day I look at that big pile of paperwork, the little outfits our child would of worn , I can't even to walk into the bedroom that I worked so hard on last year.
Every single day when we go somewhere and we see a family with children it hurts so bad. I will always wonder what could have been, and wonder about the child we would have met in Kazakhstan. I think thats what makes it so much harder is that there is no fond memories that we can look back upon.
As for now I don't know what we will do, the SWAN program here in PA. is most likely our best option, but after talking to them last year we really don't know right now.
I did just recently run into a friend of mine who just adopted through the Swan program so We'll talk with him and maybe something will become of it.
People told us you need to get out there and let it be known we are looking to adopt
Maybe we could trade our birds. ;-)
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy
Police in the southern US state of Louisiana have arrested a woman who allegedly traded two young children for an exotic bird and a bit of cash. Donna Greenwell, a 51-year-old long distance trucker, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and is being held in jail on a bond of $100,000 after she allegedly swapped a four- and five-year-old in her care for a cockatoo and $175. The story began several weeks ago when Greenwell pulled her cattle truck into a livestock dealer’s to make a delivery, Dupre said. A couple had put up a flier at the dealer’s, advertising a cockatoo they had for sale for $1,500. Ms Greenwell saw the picture of the cockatoo along with the phone number, and with her raising birds already, she called them up. The conversation started with buying the cockatoo but when Greenwell found out they were a childless couple, it led up to trading the bird for the kids. The deal was sealed, and Greenwell handed over a five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl to the Romeros in exchange for the bird and $175. The children weren’t even Greenwell’s biological offspring. afp
It's been so long since I've last posted anything, but there is nothing to post.
This time last year we were getting really excited, knowing our time to travel was coming soon. Little did we know that in the next few months to come we would lose two children.
This past Christmas was really hard for us, we though that we'd have our little girl home from Kazakhstan and we would be celebrating our 1st Christmas together.
Dec. 16th is also when our other child would have been born, A Christmas baby. The birth mother was planning on trying to have the baby on Dec 6th
It's been almost a year since we recieved the bad news from CHI and nothing has changed. Sandy was talking with a doctor about Adopting (many pregnant single girls not knowing what to do could have been told about us looking to Adopt). After 3 canceled appointments we found out he left the practice.
We've also talked with an Agency about domestic adoption but the $11,000 they wanted up front put an end to that.
Right now we really don't know what we want to do. Today was the 1st time in a really long time that I went to CHI's website to read the blogs only to be disgusted.
So many families having dossiers returned and nothing but trouble with trying to Adopt from Kaz. WHY!!! So many families want to adopt and so many children in need of a good home what is the PROBLEM!!!!
I just wish people could understand how painful for us families. The end of last year was REALLY hard for us. It was just to hard to be around children without getting upset and people couldn't understand why and would even get mad at us. We were even told "I didn't attend any Funeral so I don't know why your so upset"
I guess people can't understand what it's like to try so hard for so long only to have all your hopes and dreams crushed.
We might not of had a funeral but every day I feel like a part of me has died. Every day I look at that big pile of paperwork, the little outfits our child would of worn , I can't even to walk into the bedroom that I worked so hard on last year.
Every single day when we go somewhere and we see a family with children it hurts so bad. I will always wonder what could have been, and wonder about the child we would have met in Kazakhstan. I think thats what makes it so much harder is that there is no fond memories that we can look back upon.
As for now I don't know what we will do, the SWAN program here in PA. is most likely our best option, but after talking to them last year we really don't know right now.
I did just recently run into a friend of mine who just adopted through the Swan program so We'll talk with him and maybe something will become of it.
People told us you need to get out there and let it be known we are looking to adopt
Maybe we could trade our birds. ;-)
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy
Monday, December 1, 2008
ON HOLD
Well once again our appointment was canceled :-( Still no word on when we might have a 3rd try I'll let everyone know.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
NEXT WEEK
Just a quick update:
We have an appointment next week, I really don't know where this will lead us, I guess we'll know more a week from now. We're starting all over again and hope something will become of this, if not I think we are done trying to adopt we are really out of options. I'll let everyone know how things go.
Brian
P.S. a few of you have Blogs that have gone private We'd love an invite, following along and seeing how others have overcome adversity inspires us.
Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman
We have an appointment next week, I really don't know where this will lead us, I guess we'll know more a week from now. We're starting all over again and hope something will become of this, if not I think we are done trying to adopt we are really out of options. I'll let everyone know how things go.
Brian
P.S. a few of you have Blogs that have gone private We'd love an invite, following along and seeing how others have overcome adversity inspires us.
Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman
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