Our story

Dennis & I (Darlene) have created this blog to share with all of our friends and family our journey to adopt. The journey began when we met, fell in love and our desire to begin our family. We struggled for 6 years unsuccessfully to have children. Talk of adoption was something we had always considered and in April of 2007 we thought heaven had opened up when we were introduced to a birth mother who wanted to have us adopt her son. After several months of supporting her and her other child throughout the pregnancy our dreams fell apart when the birth mother scammed us not only out of our money but broke our hearts into a million pieces. Dennis was left to pick up the pieces and has reassured me every step of the way with his love and never ending devotion to our dreams of having a family.

Dennis and I started the long process of adopting from Kazakhstan and in 2008 we meet our son Nicholas.

We are now beginning the long process to adopt a sibling for Nicholas and it looks like Russia is where we will be heading next and hope in 2010 we meet our child!

We hope you will join us on our journey as we will do all our updating on this site. As always your love, prayers, good wishes & support mean the world to us. Thank you for being such an important part of our lives.







Sunday, February 3, 2008

A little bump in the road

Well we found out we needed a minor correction on our homestudy & we should have it finalized this week and then back off to USCIS. Once USCIS gives us the go ahead we can really start the process moving again and things should start happening. This has been difficult as I thought we would have already been past all of this at this time. The delays are the hardest when you are waiting, waiting, waiting and it is really out of our control.

So once again patience, patience & more patience!

4 comments:

Matthew Ruley said...

Hey can you check with Blogger - somehow ou have posts for 2009 and everythign opens to 2007. Thanks!

Karen said...

Bumps, bumps and more bumps. It's never ending. First it took forever to get our 171H, then we waited, waited, waited at the two ministries. Now we're in the region and there's no children in our age range. Look out, there's another bump coming up in the road.

Kim said...

Oh patience is the name of the game. We had a lot more bumps than the average Kaz adoption but we have been home with Joshua since July 4th. It all goes away when you see your little one for the first time.

Kim

(I will send you an invite to my blog since I am reading yours.) :)

Catalina said...

Hi Darlene,
happy I found your blog, I hope by now, everything is cleared. Do you have any updates? We also have so many delays with our home study, our finger prints have been rejected 3 times, we really need to exercise our patience. The picture of your house look wonderful.