• Adoption, Adoption Process, Adoption Stories

    Posted on April 18th, 2009

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    The Dancing Days of Adoption

    The Dancing Days of Adoption

    Submitted by Brandi.  Read more of her experiences at Home, Hope and Future. 
    Today, one friend received her I71H (a very important gov’t form) and 2 received referrals. . .this got me to thinking about Dancing Days. . .
    One bonus about adoption vs. pregnancy are the amount of “dancing days”. These are your milestone days. In [...]

  • Adoption, Adoption Process, Adoption Stories

    Posted on April 14th, 2009

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    Adoption: Official Referral

    Adoption: Official Referral

    Submitted by Brandi.  Read more of her experiences at Living Freely.
    On June 27, Donna (from Acres of Hope) posted a comment on the yahoogroup for AoH families saying, ” For any of you families who are waiting on kids.  You might want to consider a boy (smile) we have been getting in quite  a [...]

  • Adoption, Adoption Process, Adoption Stories

    Posted on April 2nd, 2009

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    Our Chinese Adoption

    Our Chinese Adoption

    Today, Diana of Diana Rambles blogging fame shares with us some of her experience adopting her cutie-pie daughter from China!
    Back in 2005 we decided to add to our family via adoption. We explored our options and ultimately decided to adopt from China. There are 2 adoption options with China. One is the traditional program where you send [...]

  • Adoption, Adoption Process

    Posted on March 5th, 2009

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    The Process of International Adoption

    The Process of International Adoption

    Submitted by Carissa (to read more from Carissa, visit her site here)
     
    The easiest way to describe this process is in our own three stages of “pregnancy” (1) the paper chase (2) the wait and (3) travel and child (or children we hope!). The problem with this “pregnancy” is it might be more similar to the [...]