Dossier being reviewed

We got an email this week that John has been able to review our dossier.  It’s all good except their is an error on our Power of Attorney letter.  We have the person listed as a “she” from the info we were given  but it is a “he”.  Minor detail but an important one.  They’ll [...]

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Wanting to be your Momma.

I just got an update from Kelly who is in Haiti this week and took our dossier to Heartline for us.  Here is what she said…
“Frankie is a sweetie.  We went over to the boys house before I left yesterday.  He was falling asleep in the swing with his nanny singing to him (very sweet).  [...]

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Our Dossier Arrived in Haiti today! WooHoo!

Just got an email from Beth at Heartline.  Kelly who offered to take our dossier to Haiti left this morning for her trip.
In the email Beth says…. “dossier arrived safe and sound”
Our papers are officially on Haitian soil!

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Some of my Favorite Picts Yet!

Just got a few updated Pictures of Frankie fromt this past week. Oh how our family LONGS to go see him and get to know him better. I so desire to know all I can about this little guy! I love his smile! Emma just loved these pictures as well. [...]

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Update From this Past May

Childʼs Name: Francklin Joseph
Date of Update: May 23, 2008
DOB: 3/20/2007
Date Entered MCH: 5/20/07
Weight:20 pounds
Height: 29 inches
The stealing continues but now he can steal something and run away with it!!!!!!! Frankie walks like a pro and is no longer the little baby. He plays age appropriately and says a [...]

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Frankie’s Blessing

We have done this with all of our Children and Dave just finished Frankie’s Blessing.  Dave wrote it for him.  We will continue to pray this blessing over Frankie’s life.  As Dave was looking into Frankie’s name given to him by a lady named Bev who cared for Frankie when he first came to Maranatha, we discovered [...]

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Mission: “Dossier to Haiti” has begun.

Friday we sent our dossier on it’s way to Haiti and to John at Maranatha.  A very random but not so random thing happened.  We were planning on shipping our papers via DHL to Haiti.  I was shocked at how much it would cost to get it there…200+ dollars and a lot of worry on [...]

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Praying over our Dossier

This past Wednesday night we got together with our family for dinner. My grandmother made our favorite meal… Chicken Supreme and we all got together to pray over our dossier before we send it on it’s way. What an amazing evening. I think it’s really hard at times for the older generation… 80+ year olds [...]

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Compiled with LOVE….

Today was a big day.  Our papers returned from Chicago.  I’ll be making copies of everything and on Thursday we’ll send them on their way to Haiti.  So Frankie…. We finally got it done. We can’t wait to get these papers into the system so that we can start an official wait to get you.  [...]

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We Could Use Your Help

I just posted this on my blog and wanted to post it here as well….

Many of you have been following our adoption journey on my blog or on Frankies site and know that we are about to be sending our dossier to Haiti in the next week.  Sending that dossier is the first major step in [...]

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