One year ago today, Hailie Marie joined our family by adoption. God has indeed blessed us with loads of laughter! Happy Gotcha Day, Cutie Pie!
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God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. Genesis 21:6
Timeline to Juliana
- December 13, 2012 On our way home!!!!
- December 11, 2012 Consulate Date
- December 4, 2012 Adoption Finalized
- December 3, 2012 Gotcha Day!
- November 28, 2012 On our way to CHINA!
- November 8, 2012 Travel Approva!!
- October 30, 2012 Article 5 Picked up and sent to Beijing
- October 19, 2012 Steve, Kathy & Hailie's visas arrive
- October 12, 2012 NVC appoval forwarded to US Consulate in Guangzhou, China
- October 11, 2012 Our visa applications are submitted to the consulate
- October 3, 2012 I-800 Provisional Approval granted. We received it by mail on October 9.
- September 24, 2012 Letter of Acceptance arrived from China
- July 25, 2012 Log In Date received from CCCWA
- July 18, 2012 Dossier verified and authenticated through the US State Department and the Chinese Consulate and on it's way to China
- June 28, 2012 All our documents (except our I-800A approval which is still at the Secretary of State for verification) are at the Chinese Embassy at D.C. now for authentication.
- June 18, 2012 Received approval of I- 797
- June 6, 2012 Went to USCIS for fingerprints
- May 10, 2012 Homestudy Approved, accepted into the China program, I-800A application and supporting documents submitted to USCIS
- April 21, 2012- 2nd Homestudy visit
- April 19, 2012- Finished our last parenting class
- March 24, 2012- 1st Homestudy visit
- March 15, 2012- Received our Pre-Approval
- March 11, 2012- Submitted Rehabilitation and Nurture Plan for Pre-Approval
- February 27, 2012- Told agency we were interested in adopting “Juliana.”
- February 14, 2012- Kathy requests file for “Juliana.”
- June 18, 2011- Kathy requests password for WACAP waiting child website and begins sharing pictures of waiting children with Steve.
- May 2011- After friends begin the adoption process for a 10 year old girl from China, Kathy reads article about the sad lives of orphans who age out of the system without ever getting a forever family, a serious problem worldwide, but with special implications in China. Kathy feels God moving us to add a daughter to our family.
- January 3, 2011- After much prayer and thought we decided that, at that time, it was not in the best interests of either girl to introduce any further disruptions, but it did open Kathy’s heart to considering another child.
- December 2010- We are asked to consider adopting Hailie’s sister.
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- Steve and I are high school sweethearts, originally from Downers Grove, IL. We have grown in our love of God and each other in our 35 years of marriage. We are the proud parents of two adult sons, Tim & Chris and our darling daughter, Hailie.
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