I applied for one grant today from God's Grace Adoption Ministry (http://www.ggam.org/). The grants are made available from GGAM partially through Athletes for Adoption (www.athletesforadoption.org/). Super cool local ministry, check it out!
I did most of the writing and data collecting for two other funding sources. One is a grant and the other could potentially be a loan or a matching grant.
We know God has a plan and will provide as needed! :)
Friday, November 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Dreams...
I had my first "pregnancy" dream last night. I dreamed we were chosen and received info about the birthfamily in the mail. (which I thought was weird because we were told we would get a phone call. The paper we received in the mail said the family was in the bay area, due 2/9/11, and having a boy and they were Jewish. Then the dream became very weird and random. lol But it was funny. Right before I woke up I thought, I need to call Rica and tell her the good news! Then I thought I better call our Social Worker to make sure everything was legit. Then I realized I was dreaming and woke up. Haha Have to document this just in case any of the details are correct! ;)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
We are Paper Pregnant!!!!
Definition of Paper Pregnancy: We have turned our profile in to the adoption agency. They will now "show" us to birth families. Our period of wait until we are chosen is kind of like a gestation period, thus Paper Pregnancy! :)
We turned in our profile and paid the program fee last Friday. We are so happy to be a waiting family! We cannot wait to bring our baby home! I am saying the wait could be anywhere from one month to eight months. Everyone is telling us they think we will be chosen quickly, but we don't want to get our hopes up too high. The agency told us that typically when a birth family chooses an adoptive family, the birth mother is about 8 months pregnant on average. So it is pretty likely that once we are chosen baby will be coming home soon! Exciting times!
I am going to be working on applying for grants and and low or no interest adoption loans. We only have $10,000 to go! God is faithful!
I will update when there is new news! :)
We turned in our profile and paid the program fee last Friday. We are so happy to be a waiting family! We cannot wait to bring our baby home! I am saying the wait could be anywhere from one month to eight months. Everyone is telling us they think we will be chosen quickly, but we don't want to get our hopes up too high. The agency told us that typically when a birth family chooses an adoptive family, the birth mother is about 8 months pregnant on average. So it is pretty likely that once we are chosen baby will be coming home soon! Exciting times!
I am going to be working on applying for grants and and low or no interest adoption loans. We only have $10,000 to go! God is faithful!
I will update when there is new news! :)
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