Baby Olivia's Adoption

$5548 including donations and savings. That's awesome! We are still working away at our dossier, have had 3 out of 4 homestudy visits completed, and will be waiting on that to be finalized and then to receive permission from the US govt. to adopt internationally. Once we receive that paper, we will need to send in our dossier, with 2 copies, to America World to be proofed and then sent to Ethiopia (DTE = Dossier to Ethiopia).

Your DTE is what puts you in line in the waiting list for an infant daughter. The wait depends on what children are leaving the transition home with their parents and what children are currently waiting for their court dates and approvals. Theoretically, the reason you have to wait is because they cannot bring MY baby in from an out-laying orphanage into the transitional home (waiting for me - or referred to our family as our daughter-2-be) until a space opens up. Waiting, waiting, and more waiting. At every stage!!

We are currently waiting on God to provide the funds needed to submit the dossier in a month or two. Since most of the funds donated have already been paid out for previous costs, we are now at only $1718 of the $7700 needed. Wow God, let's see what you have up your sleeve next! I'm trying my best not to worry but to give it all to Him. Olivia is His daughter before mine anyway and this is His work. We are just so blessed to be able to take part in it.

Did not realize that when the time ran out on a chip in event, you cannot change the date again. So I had to start a whole new slider scale, taking into account the money we were able to raise from the first fundraiser $4570!! Still chipping at our original goal of $20,000 for Olivia's adoption from Ethiopia. Thank you to all who contributed already!