Home Study Finished!

Yippee!!! We have finished up our home study (again). It won't be long now that we will have our dossier in and will be "officially waiting" once more...not to mention that it will be such a relief as well!

Thanks for your continued support!
Happy MLK Day to all!

Sewing for Baby

A bought a sewing machine a few months ago and took a beginning sewing class to learn the basics. Recently, I finished my first item for baby...a taggie blanket. Now I am addicted to buying fabric. I have oodles of it waiting for me to create blankets, bibs, burp cloths, etc. I will post more projects once I get it in gear.

If ever I turn up M.I.A.... check JoAnn Fabics.

Application approved!

For those of you that don't already know...we have officially switched agencies. We have been approved at our new agency and we are busy, busy compiling a new dossier and have already started our new home study. Unfortunately, we had to do ALL of our paperwork again and our old agency would not allow us to transfer our completed home study. So we are currently in the process of finishing up at entire new study....and we have to pay for an entire new study. Boo! Hiss! Luckily, we are working with an excellent social worker who is bending over backwards to get our study done as quickly as possible so that we can get our dossier in ASAP. I am very anxious to be done with all this and to once again be "officially waiting".

Please keep our adoption in your thoughts and prayers...especially our child and our child's birthmother.

Thank you all!

Merry Christmas!!!

No, this isn't a belated Christmas wish.
Today is the Ethiopian Christmas or as they call it, Ganna. Ethiopia follows the ancient Julian calendar.

I can't wait to celebrate Ganna with our little one!

Gigi

I just got an excellent CD. It is the self-titled work of Ethiopian singer/songwriter Gigi.
If anyone is interested in checking it out, I bought it from Amazon.
The music was uplifting enough to make housework enjoyable!

Cheers!

Happy New Year to each and everyone of you!

Jerry and I have been quite busy this last month with celebrations galore. Additionally, we have recently decided to switch adoption agencies. Why? Well..for one it looks like it is a good possibility the wait time will be shorter. There were a couple other reasons that were important to us as a couple as well.

So...what does this all mean?

It means we need to practically re-do all of the work we have done up to this point. Luckily, it is much easier the second time. We submitted our application, are working on compiling a new dossier, and are figuring out what we need to do about our homestudy. Hopefully, in the next week or two we will have much this completed. Let's all hope for a smooooooooooooth transition!

Jerry and I have started to prepare for our trip to Ethiopia by meeting with a travel doctor. After our meeting, we got stuck in the arm with some of the immunizations we need to travel. Three shots down and 2 more to go. Man, I was sore for a couple of days. Jerry seemed unfazed...lucky guy. We have two more visits to finish up our Hep series. We decided to pass on the Yellow Fever vaccination after being told that 1 out 400,000 die of getting the vaccination. Um, no thanks! Our risk of getting Yellow Fever in Addis is quite low anyways. Maybe I will just drape myself in mosquito netting. It is very fashionable.

Happy 2009 to you and your family!
I am looking forward to an exceptionally great year!

Peace and love,

MB

Galloway Adoption Blog Launch!

Welcome to our blog!
I am very new to this and just figuring it out......so bare with me.
Hopefully, I will soon get things in order and have a basic understanding of what I am doing.
Until then...have a blessed holiday season!!!