First Blog Entry 3/4/09

On May 23, 2008 Lisa and I decided to begin the process of adopting a child. We had many conversations early in our relationship about adopting "someday." We both felt we were being called to adopt a child and finally decided to start the ball rolling...

Here is a brief synopsis of what has transpired beginning on the 23rd of May....

We spoke to our parents the same day we made our decision. All three were very excited!

5/23/08 11:15 pm Spoke to my sister Ann and told her she was going to be an Aunt, again!

5/24/08 1:30 pm Spoke to my brother Howard about our decision.

5/25/08 Talked to my brother Steve, who already knew since Howard told him!

6/3/08 Our first meeting at Hope Adoption agency. We looked at other agencies, but decided on Hope mainly due to our good friend who adopted their daughter from China using Hope as well.

7/7/08 We sent in our contracts!

Spent many months putting together our dossier. We had a homestudy done, we got finger printed---twice, we had local and national background checks, Lisa made many trips to our bank and our Title Company and to the Agency...

We had some memorable adventures, more on those later....

The biggest day so far has been March 2, 2009.....the day we got "the call" from Dawn at the agency. Usually when she called it meant we needed more paperwork....this time she told us we needed to be in Kiev, Ukraine on March 23rd

We have booked our flights....we leave March 19th!!! We have so much to do.....

More later....