The courts granted Kaylee to us today! Now we wait to travel!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Watch out for stolen identities this Easter!
This is my favorite since we have a dapple dachshund! Do you see the bunny rabbit?
Monday, March 16, 2009
Our Papers have arrived in Taiwan
Our papers have arrived safely in Taiwan. We are one step closer to our girl. Full details are available only on the protected blog. To receive permission, you must leave your blog address and email here and how you know me and I will consider including you! We just have lots of info. that we don't want the "roaming public eye" to have access to. When we travel, we will open the other blog to general view. Thanks for understanding!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Our little joyful plum
I know I have a lot of readers that have not asked for the password to the wordpress blog. We have decided to let everyone know about the referral of our daughter from Taiwan. She is an absolute doll. She is five months old and we expect to travel in about three months or so to bring her home. God has been good to us! I am happy to introduce to you Kaylee Anne-Marie McCulley. We will be withdrawing from the Vietnam program and from Children's Hope International. Right now I am keeping certain information protected on the other blog, but when we travel, we will be happy to share our journey with everyone. She is an absolute answer to prayer as we were called on Christmas Day with her referral. We are busy getting everything ready and our paperwork is already being translated in Taiwan. This is going to be an exciting journey for us!
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Faith is...
not believing that God can, but knowing that He will. He spoke it, He planned it and He has finally brought it to pass!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Our Christmas Miracle
We have a Christmas Secret! It is password protected. You will have to have the password to log on to www.joyfulplum.wordpress.com to find out our secret!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Still here, still hoping
Hi, all! I know it has been FOREVER since I have posted. Please forgive me. So much has been going on, physically and emotionally. I have been spending a lot of time with my niece and her new daughter while she was on maternity leave. I know, I know! I cannot believe I have not shared pictures of this little beauty with you. I promise to load them up asap! She really has become the light in my life right now. I have also been fighting a horrible infection all month long and finally went to the Dr. this week to find out I have a bacterial infection and am now on a round of Augmentin. HMMM, many trips to the bathroom! Can anyone relate?!
On the Vietnam front: many of my blog friend families are finally traveling to finalize their adoptions. The US Dept of State reported on their website that no new adoptions will commence until a new bilateral agreement is reached or Vietnam signs on to the Hague Convention. Our agency projects this process to at least be a year. Our agency is also being reconsidered by the Hague committee, so hopefully they will be approved. Our fingerprints will expire in Dec, so we are looking at 900 dollars to keep those current while we decide what we are going to do. I know several families that have chosen to go other routes and some that are having no choice but to wait out this moratorium with Vietnam. I will be posting soon on the other site about our options. You have to have a password to follow. I am also thinking of changing my password, as i feel I may have been too liberal with the first one.
I am really enjoying my Tues. night Bible study. Look for a post coming soon with some things I would like to share with you. It is just so relative to this adoption journey we have been on. It is too good not to share, but it will take me a while to compose on that.
I am going to be making hair bows, tutus, and the like to supplement our income. I may try to set up a website, but will at least be posting my designs here. If you have little girls and like hair bows and ponies, I am working on some designs for Christmas. I promise the prices will be reasonable. I hope to have some pics posted early next week as this is going to be my weekend project.
On the Vietnam front: many of my blog friend families are finally traveling to finalize their adoptions. The US Dept of State reported on their website that no new adoptions will commence until a new bilateral agreement is reached or Vietnam signs on to the Hague Convention. Our agency projects this process to at least be a year. Our agency is also being reconsidered by the Hague committee, so hopefully they will be approved. Our fingerprints will expire in Dec, so we are looking at 900 dollars to keep those current while we decide what we are going to do. I know several families that have chosen to go other routes and some that are having no choice but to wait out this moratorium with Vietnam. I will be posting soon on the other site about our options. You have to have a password to follow. I am also thinking of changing my password, as i feel I may have been too liberal with the first one.
I am really enjoying my Tues. night Bible study. Look for a post coming soon with some things I would like to share with you. It is just so relative to this adoption journey we have been on. It is too good not to share, but it will take me a while to compose on that.
I am going to be making hair bows, tutus, and the like to supplement our income. I may try to set up a website, but will at least be posting my designs here. If you have little girls and like hair bows and ponies, I am working on some designs for Christmas. I promise the prices will be reasonable. I hope to have some pics posted early next week as this is going to be my weekend project.
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