So much has happened since I last wrote.
Thank you to everyone who bought tickets, grilled chicken, cooked, and helped us hand out chicken at our fundraiser! We are so thankful. With the money raised we reached our next milestone!
Surprise: We are adopting from CHINA!
Remember all of that paperwork that are ran around collecting and getting notarized, certified, and authenticated?!?! We sent it all to China!
Once our paperwork was logged we had a "match" call with our agency. The call was to explain the match process. During that phone call we reviewed our medical check list. Adam and I felt great after this call. We were so happy to finally have our paperwork in the correct county. We put dates in our calendars for 6 months from now. Dates to remind us to renew our paperwork. Dates to remind us to check in with our agency. We were told the matching process would take about 8 months.
Fast forward 7 days...... Michelle got a phone call. WE WERE MATCHED!!!! Shocked and crying, not knowing what to ask or say, Michelle hung up and immediately called Adam. And then we got the email. The file. The picture. The statistics. We saw Shelby Jane for the first time. We were even able to watch a video of Shelby. We fell in love.
Once we received the file, the work began.
We had Shelby's file reviewed by three sets of doctors. Shelby is a 20 month old, beautiful little girl, who is now our daughter. She is a blessing to us already!! Shelby has a genetic blood disorder that requires blood transfusions. Luckily for us, CHOP in Philadelphia has a fantastic clinic that will help us with the best treatment plan for Shelby!
After everyone completed their review of the file we were able to write our Letter of Intent. Our letter of Intent was mailed to China!!!
This means....
*We are waiting for our Letter of Acceptance
*We will travel in October or November to meet Shelby and bring her home with us!
*We will be paying our orphanage fees in July
*We still have to raise/save around $13,000
*Prayers are welcome for us and Shelby Jane!
During our fundraising efforts we were given a $2,500 matching grant! Any money given through the link below will be doubled (up to $2,500). All of this money will go towards our final costs and help us go get Shelby.
https://www.lifesongfororphans.org/give/donate/
Select: adoption
Be sure to include our family number (6870) and names.
Feel free to share our page or blog. Have questions about this process? Questions about Shelby? Questions about money or financing? Ask!
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