Lux et umbra vicissum…

It’s taken me longer than I like to post this, but I hope most of you will understand why once you’ve read the whole thing. As most of you know, our two new daughters will be arriving home with Daddy tomorrow morning. Yay! Now for further news…   When we started this adoption process, Joel […]

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Ok, so those of you going through Ethiopian adoptions right now will understand the full magnitude of this miracle.  Let me try to spell it out for everyone else… There are two judges who hear all of the adoption cases in Ethiopia.  Because the adoption laws in the country have changed a bit recently (requiring […]

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This’ll be brief because… well… you know, life. Our dossier should be in Ethiopia now.  Yay!  We don’t know how long it’ll take for them to assign us a court date, but when they do set the date it’ll be about 10 to 12 weeks away.  We don’t travel for the court date; we travel […]

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We got our authenticated documents back in the mail today!!  Yay!!  I had thought we would be able to send off our dossier at this point, but after looking through the home study I discovered that our social worker hadn’t included the agency license and such that we need to send with it.  She said […]

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We got our USCIS (immigrations) fingerprints appointment in the mail today!  It’s January 13th in the afternoon.  I’ll have to work out someone getting the two oldest from school if not babysitting for all of them, but it’s well worth it.  Please pray with us that the results come back quickly so we can get […]

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As of today, we have the money we need to send in our dossier. AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is SO good and has blessed us so richly!!!  I had no idea where these funds were coming from, and now He’s brought them in from all over the place to give these beautiful girls a home.  PRAISE THE […]

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What gift is there that’s better than life with a loving family, a chance to live and grow?  We only need $4000 more to give that gift to our two future daughters in Ethiopia.  Please consider helping us to that goal. A friend just came back from picking up her Ethiopian children, and she had […]

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We only need about $4000 now to bring the girls home!!!  If anyone wants to donate, it’s tax deductible!  You can get one more tax deduction for this year if you do it this month.  And what a fabulous Christmas gift for two lonely girls…. a family! We’ve been expecting to hear that the home […]

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We only need $6000 more!  To donate: go to http://www.cwa.org toward the bottom of the page click on “Donate now to CWA or CWF” fill in your donor info, select donation amount, then in the optional area choose “CWA Family” Put in the last name “Fouse” and the state “VA” Put in your credit card […]

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After a large donation from a family member and the amount we’ve managed to save over the past several months, I think we only need about $6500 more to send in our dossier!  Huzzah!  Anybody want to join in and give us the best Christmas present ever???  Donations are tax deductible! 🙂

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