We ended up with a total of 21 entries for the gift card giveaway, with $16 donated, 3 face book posts and 2 blog posts. Thank you so much to all of you who shared our story and donated to our fund! We are constantly humbled by the number of people who are facing their own challenges or in the middle of their own adoption journey and still step out to support us. We are blessed to have you as part of our lives.
I entered the numbers into http://www.random.org/ and the winner of the $50 gift card is Becca T.! I'll be contacting her tonight.
Thanks again for the amazing support. Hopefully we'll be posting soon to say that our dossier is on it's way to Eastern Europe!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A Big Step Forward
We (finally) got the news that our petition to the Ministry of Justice in Allen's country has been approved!! We are officially going to be his Momma and Daddy! Yaaaaayyyyy!
I wish I could say that was the last step and we could bring him home now, but that was really just the first step. It means that he has been removed from the list of children available for adoption and is "ours" but we still have a ways to go.
The next step will be sending in our dossier to the government. This includes our I800A from the USCIS that shows that we have been approved to adopt internationally, our home study, multiple background checks, letters of employment and more. Once the dossier is reviewed we will receive our court date and can travel for our first trip to meet Allen and do the court proceedings to initiate the adoption. Then we will have to wait about 2 months to travel back to Eastern Europe to finalize the adoption, get his visa and bring him home.
It is a long road but we have taken one huge step!
I wish I could say that was the last step and we could bring him home now, but that was really just the first step. It means that he has been removed from the list of children available for adoption and is "ours" but we still have a ways to go.
The next step will be sending in our dossier to the government. This includes our I800A from the USCIS that shows that we have been approved to adopt internationally, our home study, multiple background checks, letters of employment and more. Once the dossier is reviewed we will receive our court date and can travel for our first trip to meet Allen and do the court proceedings to initiate the adoption. Then we will have to wait about 2 months to travel back to Eastern Europe to finalize the adoption, get his visa and bring him home.
It is a long road but we have taken one huge step!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Only Two Entries for the Giveaway So Far...
We've only had two people enter our giveaway. :-(
You may not think that posting our story on your blog or your facebook page can help, but getting the word out about our adoption can be a huge help. And if you have a few dollars to spare it will help so much in getting Allen home.
So how do you enter??
1) Share our blog on facebook (1 entry)
2) Share our story and blog on your blog (1 entry)
3) Donate to our tax deductible fund on Reece's Rainbow by clicking the link to the left (1 entry for each dollar donated)
Please leave a comment if you do any of the above so that I will know who to enter in the drawing. Please help us get Allen home!!
You may not think that posting our story on your blog or your facebook page can help, but getting the word out about our adoption can be a huge help. And if you have a few dollars to spare it will help so much in getting Allen home.
So how do you enter??
1) Share our blog on facebook (1 entry)
2) Share our story and blog on your blog (1 entry)
3) Donate to our tax deductible fund on Reece's Rainbow by clicking the link to the left (1 entry for each dollar donated)
Please leave a comment if you do any of the above so that I will know who to enter in the drawing. Please help us get Allen home!!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Gift Card Give Away!!
We have a $50 Target gift card to give away!
All entries will be entered on a spread sheet to assign them a number and the winner of the gift card will be chosen using http://www.random.org/. Entries need to be received by midnight on Sunday June 26th. We will enter the numbers and announce the lucky winner on Monday, June 27th.
So how do you enter??
1) Share our blog on facebook (1 entry)
2) Share our story and blog on your blog (1 entry)
3) Donate to our tax deductible fund on Reece's Rainbow by clicking the link to the left (1 entry for each dollar donated)
Please leave a comment if you do any of the above so that I will know who to enter in the drawing. Thank you again for all of your help in getting Allen home!
All entries will be entered on a spread sheet to assign them a number and the winner of the gift card will be chosen using http://www.random.org/. Entries need to be received by midnight on Sunday June 26th. We will enter the numbers and announce the lucky winner on Monday, June 27th.
So how do you enter??
1) Share our blog on facebook (1 entry)
2) Share our story and blog on your blog (1 entry)
3) Donate to our tax deductible fund on Reece's Rainbow by clicking the link to the left (1 entry for each dollar donated)
Please leave a comment if you do any of the above so that I will know who to enter in the drawing. Thank you again for all of your help in getting Allen home!
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