Welcome!

Welcome to our blog of Lia Grace's journey home!

We are so excited about our daughter and can't wait to meet her.

This blog was created to serve as a journal of Lia's adoption so she will have a record in years to come of the steps it took to bring her home and also as a way for our friends and family to stay updated on the process.

As of today, we are waiting for our social worker to finish our home study report so that our agency can submit our I-800A to the USCIS. The I-800A is the application for us to adopt a foreign born child and we must get our government's approval before Lia Grace can come home. Once we get approval, we will have to wait for an appointment to be fingerprinted. The home study must be attached to the I-800A so that is why we are waiting for the final home study report. All other home study and dossier documents that are in OUR control have been accounted for and, for almost all of them, have already been state sealed. *insert happy dance*

So, what do we do while we wait? We pray. We pray for a speedy referral. Specifically we pray for our daughter's health, protection and safety, her orphanage, the nannies that are caring for her, or if she is lucky enough, the foster family that is caring for her. We pray that she feels loved and that she knows what it feels like to be attached to someone. We pray for her friends that will never know that love of a family because sadly they have been labeled "unadoptable". We pray for the other children that are waiting for their forever families.  We pray for a smooth transition for our sweet girl.

Would you join us in praying?

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."

John 14:18