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.....