Well hello blogging world. My apologies for not keeping up to date on this realm of social media. Between adoption paperwork, making necklaces, my "regular" job, and the family...this is the last thing from my mind. However, I thought I would take a second and at least update all you who are curious about where we are with our process to bring Karsynn home.
We are currently waiting for our I800a approval from Immigration. We took our fingerprints on April 6th and are just waiting for that letter of approval in the mail. With Brayden's adoption it took 4 days after fingerprints to receive approval. Great example of how things change in the adoption process!
Once we receive that approval we can send it off to the Secretary of State and the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco for their approvals and then we will be DTC (Dossier/Documents To China)! This is always a sigh of relief because that means everything is done on our end. Then we just wait until China says we can come to bring Karsynn home. Right now, it is looking like October sometime could be when we would travel!! It snows where Karsynn lives and so I am praying that we travel in October and before the weather gets bad.
I have been working overtime to make necklaces and keychains to raise money for our adoption expenses. We are so blessed of this opportunity God gave us and the support of so many people making it happen! We are still needing a large amount of money by October (about $19,000) but I know God WILL PROVIDE every penny! We are planning on taking Kennedi with us because she is at a point where she is embrasing her Chinese heritage finally (if you know Kennedi, you know this is a huge step for her) plus it is a great thing for the adopted child to have another child around. Karsynn also lives in an area that requires an extra week in China so instead of 2 weeks we have to plan on being there 3 weeks. These two things add a huge amount to the costs of this adoption. We are waiting to hear on a couple grant applications in the next month or so and are praying at least one of them come through. This would be a huge blessings on this journey.
So can you please pray that we can travel by October and that the grants are approved and the funds keep being provided, if you think about us? We are so blessed by all the people who have surrounded us with love and support during this journey.
