Our adoption just got updated to Home at Last Posted about almost 5 years ago

After more than two years, we are finally home with our beautiful daughter Jamuna! We had to spend a long month in the Indian summer heat (105º average temps) waiting for court dates and passports and visas, but it was all SO worth it to finally bring her back to her forever home. We are settling back into the day to day and adjusting to our new "normal" as she goes through the even larger adju...

Our adoption just got updated to Child Identified! Posted about over 5 years ago

We are really late in sending out this update, but we were matched with a beautiful baby girl back in June! We were fortunate enough to go and get to meet her this last September while we were in India, and she is absolutely gorgeous. She was about 10 months old when we met her, and she is currently about 13 months old now. She is happy, healthy, and we are so excited to bring her home.Speaking...

Our adoption just got updated to Paperwork Complete Posted about over 6 years ago

We have finished our Home Study and have been approved by CARA to be matched with children. 

Waiting to See Their Faces Posted about over 6 years ago

It's been a long 10 months of paperwork, background checks, and medical examinations, but we are finally in the "matching" phase of this process. We've officially been approved by CARA and our adoption agency is searching throughout India for the two beautiful children we'll eventually get to call our own. So for the first time in this process, we are the ones doing the waiting and not all of t...

Wading Through Paperwork Posted about over 6 years ago

Hello Friends, Well, we are about 6 months into this adoption process and we are so glad to be sharing some of the journey with you! The next two major steps are to get a police clearance letter for every member of our household over the age of 18 (that makes 4 of us including Cory’s dad and brother) and finishing up a document called CARINGS. Most of the paperwork we are working on r...