I have moved our blog.  My brother has set up a new blog site for me.  I will be able to customize it a bit more, and it should be a bit easier to navigate now.  I really don't know all of the advantages this new site will give me, but my brother does and I trust him ( :  Anyway, I have included a link to the new site here and I will continue to keep our story updated...


The Williams Family Adoption

Thank you for following our progress and showing your support!

Donations!!

We have one week to go until the big garage sale.  We have had so many friends and family already pitch in to make this a great sale day!  We are so appreciative of the support that everyone is showing to help us out with this.  I am really looking forward to next week.  I know garage sales are a lot of work, but I like them!  And those packs of pricing stickers make it so much faster.  One week to go and here's where we're at with donations...

This is way more stuff than I have ever put out for a sale, and we still have more room and more donations coming! I have to admit that this is a much needed distraction from the wait.

Here are some dates to give you a little perspective on our time in the adoption process so far...

November 19th: Accepted into the Ethiopia program at AWAA

December 24th: Fingerprints sent in for FBI and CBI clearances

3rd Week of January: Began our home study

March: Home study complete

2nd Week of April: We had begun to realize that our wait in Ethiopia was going to be much longer than we originally thought, and began to look into some other programs

April 14th: Talked with the director of our home study agency to see if there were any other programs that she would recommend

April 16th: Got an email from mentioned H.S. agency director saying that she had gotten a request 4/15 for any interested families for an African American domestic program in GA

April 18th: All dossier documents completed and approved

April 23rd: Application to agency in GA accepted

May 9th: CBI fingerprints back

May 14th: Family Life Books handed out to adoption counselors

May 16th: FBI fingerprints back

June 4th: Family Life Book online

Praying and waiting.....

Now Accepting Donations

Well, we are officially ready to take your stuff now : ).  We have gone through our house to dig up some of the stuff that we haven't seen since we moved in.  Aydin even contributed to our garage sale (although her pile is admittedly very small).  If you have a pile of things that you are looking to purge, bring them on over!   God has been good, and our $ gap is closing.  With your help this garage sale can bring us much closer to our goal.  Please email me at jkwilliams723@yahoo.com for details about where to drop off your items, and to schedule a time to do that.   We are so excited to get the community involved!  

The garage sale will be held June 21st and 22nd, 8 am- 2 pm.   Hope to see you there.  

As always we appreciate all of your prayers and support!

Our prayer requests at this time are:
-the health of the birth mom and baby that will choose us (and for the birth moms/babies that aren't going to choose us as well)
-the adoption agency and their ministry
-a successful garage sale!
-and children around the world who need homes