OUR FIRST POST...

We started this blog a little late as we've already completed numerous stages in our adoption journey. This journey began in May 2008. So far we have:

• completed our home study with a social worker
• put together our adoption dossier (this is all of the paper work needed)
• been fully accepted and approved by our Provincial Authority to adopt
• paid our agency fees (our agency is CAFAC) in full and half of the country's fees
• been fully approved by Canadian Immigration to sponsor a child into Canada
• sent off our documents to be notarized by Foreign Affairs

This has all been quite a daunting process but we have moved through it quite quickly and without any speed bumps along the way. We hope that the rest of the process moves along just as quickly and easily.

So the next step is to receive our documents back from Foreign Affairs which will then be sent to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where the real waiting game begins. It is here that we wait for the phone call to tell us that we have a baby. We will then have to wait another six months until the adoption process can be finalized and we can go pick up our little Vincy.

The rest of this process with the waiting is going to be extremely difficult on us and we ask that you pray for us to have patience and for everything to run smoothly and quickly. We don't know yet who the child is that God has chosen for us - boy or girl - but we ask that you also pray for our "baby to be's" birth mother and father, whoever they may be.