The Mowen's Adoption Journey: First Snow of Winter

We were leaving for school in the morning and the boys ran out of the garage so fast to be able to touch the snow.

Our Timeline to Isaiah and Kaleb

6/22/11-1st meeting to update homestudy
6/27/11-apply to AWAA
7/21/11-accepted back into AWAA's Ethiopia Program
7/25/11-homestudy written, sent to DCFS for approval
8/5/11-hear back from DCFS, make changes
8/11/11-resubmit homestudy to DCFS
9/26/11-homestudy approved
9/29/11-saw our sons on WCL and asked to review their file
9/30/11-got to review their file
10/6/11-official REFERRAL CALL for 2 boys (10.5 and 1.5)
10/12/11-sent in I600 to USCIS
10/31/11-received USCIS fingerprinting date of Nov 21st
11/4/11-DTE!! Dossier on its way to Ethiopia
11/4/11-USCIS fingerprinting
11/7/11-received court date

12/9/11-got I 171h
12/16/11-leave for Ethiopia
12/17/11-arrive at 10pm in Ethiopia
12/18/11-Re-meetcha day :)
12/21/11-court date
12/30/11- pass court, Gotcha Day

1/25/12-submitted to Embassy

2/2/12- Embassy scheduled birth parent interview for Feb. 27th

2/27/12- Birth parent interview at Embassy

2/27/12- cleared by Embassy

2/28/12- US Embassy Interview

3/1/12- leave Ethiopia

3/2/12-arrive in Illinois- Isaiah and Kaleb are US Citizens!!!

Our Timeline to Jacob

11/25 to 28/09- told family and friends we've decided to adopt from Ethiopia
12/09 - researched agencies to use
12/22/09- applied to AWAA
1/6/10-Accepted to AWAA Ethiopian Program
1/7/10- Picked our Homestudy agency
1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/15- met with social worker to complete Homestudy and training
1/28/10- sent in I600A
2/9/10-completed physicals
2/12/10-received a draft of our Homestudy
2/17/10- received passports in the mail
2/21/10-completed Hague Adoption Training online
3/8/10- USCIS fingerprinting in Naperville, IL
5/11/10-IL (DCFS) approved Homestudy, off to USCIS
6/28/10- I71H arrived
6/28/10- sent Dossier to AWAA!!!
7/9/10- DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia) Officially on the waiting list!!!
10/25/10- ON DECK!!!
1/27/11- REFERRAL!!!!! It's a BOY!!
2/23/11- received court date
3/9/11-re-fingerprinted by USCIS in Naperville
3/23/11-leave for Ethiopia
3/24/11-arrive at 10pm in Ethiopia
3/25/11-meet Jacob!!!!!!!
3/31/11- court date #1-didn't pass
4/18/11- court date #2- WE PASSED!! Gotcha Day
5/13/11-cleared by US Embassy
5/17/11-US Embassy interview
5/19/11-leave Ethiopia after 2 months
5/20/11-arrive in Illinois-Jacob is an US Citizen!

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

First Snow of Winter

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