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Taken by AIAA- 6 months old
Still waiting for Mommy and Daddy
Ashraya is in Bangalore
Walking in the Light
Isaiah 2: 5 "Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord."
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I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him.
1 Samuel 1:27
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.
Matthew 18:5
Anju at Ashraya- October 2007
Taken by AIAA- 6 months old
Anju at Ashraya- July 2008
Still waiting for Mommy and Daddy
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Our Adoption Timeline
- 4/07 Meeting with Lutheran Social Service
- 5/07 Application to Lutheran Social Service of MN- Homestudy Agency
- 6/07 Application to WACAP (World Association of Children and Parents)- Seattle, WA- Placement Agency
- 6/07 Adoption Education Classes
- 7/07 Homestudy
- 7/07 USCIS Application/Fingerprinting
- 11/07 Homestudy accepted by WACAP
- 12/07 Pre-application to AIAA (Americans for International Aid and Adoption)- Michigan- New Placement Agency
- 12/07 USCIS (immigration) approval
- 1/22/08 Homestudy sent to Ashraya (orphanage) for pre-approval
- 1/31/08 Ashraya approves home study
- 2/6/08 Formal application to AIAA
- 4/2/08 Start assembling dossier
- 4/29/08 Receive Sweeti's pictures and medical information
- 5/6/08 Dossier sent to Secretary of State's office to be apostilled
- 5/8/08 Sweeti has been cleared for adoption, sent acceptance letter to Ashraya
- 5/30/08 Sweeti's surgery
- 6/2/08 Dossier/Referral acceptance sent to AIAA
- 6/25/08 Power of Attorney document mailed to Indian Consulate in Chicago for authentication
- 7/7/08 NOC
- 7/12/08 Photo album sent to Sweeti through AIAA
- 7/17/08 Homestudy update by LSS
- 9/08/08 Re-fingerprinting by USCIS, Video of Sweeti arrives
- 9/?/08 First Court Date
- 9/22/08 Second Court Date and Guardianship
- 11/10/08 Fly to Bangalore by way of Minneapolis, Amsterdam and Mumbai (Bombay)
- 11/20/08 Anju is home!!
- 9/9/09 Adoption Finalization and American Citizenship
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- I am a Confessional Lutheran pastor's wife and mom of 3 from southern Minnesota.
2 comments:
Hi Amy,
Thanks for the Easter greetings. And I love the photos. But I'm going to pull a little Monk here. We will tape the one on our wall of picts. But the one of the kids going all direction, uh-uh, no way.
Here's the problem. If I orient it the way you did on your blog, there is one child totally upside down. And neither of the others are truly right with the world either.
But if I orient it the other way, I get one child just right, but then I have two that are off kilter. I suppose I could just imagine that Solveig is hanging on monkey bars or something...But that ought to be noticeable with the direction her hair is falling.
Other than each of our little personal quirks that we notice more now and get to laugh at each other, we have been enjoying the Monk episodes we've gotten from the lib.
Um,
Amy, Shawn,
She's on her own here. I'll try to intercept any more episodes of Monk so this doesn't happen again.
Joe
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