Fabulous News

I feel like I finally have something to share and I can't figure out what I want to say. Ugh! Isn't that always the way?

Let me back up to Friday. I was on facebook on Friday and saw so many great things were happening within our little adoption group. I was so excited for everyone. Then it hit me. I still hadn't heard anything from USCIS. So I called and again got their voice mail. (I think they were screening their calls).

All day I waited for a phone call that NEVER came. Later in the day I walked up to the mailbox....slowly. As I opened the mailbox I PRAYED one last prayer that our approval would be there. IT WAS!!!

Chris & I went to the bank that afternoon to get our document notarized. Woo hoo! That was the last paper we needed for our dossier!!!

This morning it was time to get a couple of forms apostilled - our USCIS approval, our Homestudy Addendum, and a form we had tried THREE other times to get apostilled. I went with Riley, Peyton, and Milana to drop them off. The girls and I said a prayer then and there for them to apostille all of our documents.

At the end of the day we headed back to pick up our documents - praying once more that they would be ready. We were beyond thrilled when they were all apostilled - even the form they refused to do three times before. 

After picking up our documents we were off to the Post Office to mail the rest of our dossier. (Most of our dossier is already in Eastern Europe waiting for the last few documents to arrive).

Once our documents get to our children's country they will translate them. There are some issues going on within the government there which may hold things up for us and so many others. If you could say a pray, send good thoughts, etc. that the government issues get fixed quickly we would appreciate it. We need things to get straightened out so that our dossier can be submitted and we can be invited to their country to meet our little ones.

Look at these precious faces!!! We want so badly to be invited to their country to meet them and get to love on them. 

Aren't they just so adorable?

We sure think so!

Today we got moved to the Almost There page on Reece's Rainbow! This was yet another exciting part of my day. It is so nice to move over to the next category. I can't wait to move to "Traveling Now." One day we will be there.

In the meantime we have to continue to fundraise. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to help us bring our little ones home we would truly appreciate it. Here is the link to do so:

http://reecesrainbow.org/53171/sponsorwojcik

You  could also help by sharing our link, praying, sending positive thoughts, etc. Right now we are doing an Usborne Book Fundraiser. If you would like to order a book to support our adoption you can go to:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/286817031455790/

Thank you so much for all of your love and support!

We Have A Winner....

Before I announce the winner I would like to first thank my sweet friend Kristin for donating the Wii U. Without this donation there would be no Wii U Giveaway. So THANK YOU Kristin! I appreciate you donating the Wii U for the giveaway as well as ALL of your support in rallying folks to get donating! Thank you :)

I also want to thank all of YOU! Thank you so much for donating, sharing, and praying. This means so much to us all! Adopting is huge and we appreciate all the support we have gotten. Please keep it coming!

Okay...I know you are ready for me to stop my rambling and announce the winner. So.....the winner is......Valerie C!!!!

Congratulations Valerie!!! I hope you enjoy your brand new Wii U!

Waiting

It seems we are once again in "The Waiting Place." It is not the most exciting or fun place to be, but it is where we are and we are trying to make the most of it. If that is even possible.

We have been done with our dossier minus our USCIS approval for quite sometime now. We sent in our application for USCIS at the end of April. We were hoping it would be a quick process. (When we brought Milana home it was two weeks from the time we sent in our application until the time of our approval).

Needless to say it has not been quick. Fine. I can live with that if I HAVE to. I don't like it, but what can I do. I'm (sort of) learning to be patient here. Well we got our fingerprint appointment and went on May 16th. A week went by and still nothing. I called - no Officer assigned to our case. Sigh. Keep being patient! I called again and found that a letter was being sent to request more information. UGH!!! More waiting.

Once the letter came I sent it to our Social Worker and our Adoption Agency to make sure we got what we needed this time around. Over two weeks later I got the necessary paperwork for USCIS from our Social Worker. Now we are just waiting on our oversight letter from our Adoption Agency and then we will FINALLY be able to send all the needed info to USCIS.

I hope and pray the oversight letter comes tomorrow AND we get approved (and that we get approved quickly). If you pray PLEASE pray that we get approved quickly once everything is sent in to USCIS. Once we have our approval we can send that last piece needed to complete our dossier to our children's country in Eastern Europe.

Waiting is hard for us. It is SO hard. I want to go to their country and meet them and hold them and just love on them. We are all eager for that invition to their country.

Look at these beautiful faces. Can you see why waiting is SO hard??

This is our little guy. He is listed as Danny. (Not his real name) Isn't he handsome?

This is our little girl.

She is listed as Riley. (This is not her real name).

Isn't she gorgeous???

 Even Milana is having a tough time waiting. She keeps asking when they will be home. She has BIG plans for them when they do. She is already trying to get her way in where everyone will sleep. She is so eager to be a big sister!

Thank you so much for your prayers, good thoughts, well wishes, donations, etc. We are so grateful!

Fundraiser Sunday - Please Help

One of the hardest parts of the initial stages of adoption is the fundraising. If you've had to fundraise you get that. We have not had huge amounts of success thus far with any of our fundraisers. Some of them have been pretty cool too. 

Our newest fundraiser is this Sunday from 2-4 pm. If you are local and would like to come PLEASE let me know. I'd love to have you! If you aren't local you can still help. Check out this website: www.brandimendenhall.noondaycollection.com. 

Orders can be placed online. You just need to be sure to note Wojcik Adoption Fundraiser with your order. 

This stuff is beautiful!!! There is jewelry, hats, bags, sandals, etc. I love that Noonday helps people in poverty AND wants to help spread awareness about Orphans! It is truly an amazing company. I'm so excited to have found it. 

Please consider joining us Sunday. If you love the stuff as much as I do and are able to order that would be awesome! Any prayers you can spare for our fundraising would be greatly appreciated. We are getting closer and closer o having our dossier sent to Eastern Europe. We are just waiting on ONE form. 

Thank you so much for all of your support!

Wii U Giveaway

First I want to thank my very good friend Kristin for donating this! I hope Michael wasn't too upset when you delivered the news that you were donating this to us so that we could use it to raise funds for our adoption. Sorry Michael :(

Your Mom is amazing!!!

I've given this giveaway a great deal of thought. My hope is of course that we get a lot of donations towards this adoption. International adoption is quite expensive and we could us all the help we can get! We are going to do this giveaway more or less the same way we did our ipad mini giveaway. Donations can be made to our FSP through Reece's Rainbow. Donations made to our FSP are tax deductible. If for some reason you would prefer to send it through paypal directly to us you are more than welcome to do so. Keep in mind that way is NOT tax deductible. Whichever you prefer is great.

Our tax deductible fsp:
www.reecesrainbow.org/sponsorwojcik

or
paypal
djennifer2@yahoo.com

Now on to the details. We have a Wii U Deluxe Set (32 GB) that you could win by making a donation to our adoption. You can also receive entries by sharing on your blog, fb, twitter, etc.

You will receive the following number of entries:


$10=1
$20=3
$50=10
$100=30
$500 = 200
$1000 = 500

Sharing=FREE entry!!! The more you share, the more entries you will receive!!
Sharing on FB, Twitter or your blog will get you an entry. Just leave a comment below telling where you shared this fundraiser and your name will be entered.

Thank you so much for all of your support! Good luck :)

***Please don't forget to let me know if you donate so I have your name***
Thanks!!!

Where We Are...An Update

Well it seems that I am quite the slacker. I want to say that I did a MUCH better job blogging when we were in the process to adopt Milana. I suppose I could look back, but I'm just going to go with the thought that I did a better job blogging. It makes me feel better - whether it is true or not.

This time around - I don't know - it seems that life is just BUSY! I'm sure you can relate. There is just always something to do, somewhere to be, dinner to make, laundry to wash, etc. I don't know. I guess it was all there before. Who knows? Maybe we didn't eat. Seriously...we did. I guess I just stayed up super late to be sure to update my blog.

Anyway...here is where we are. We had our USCIS appointment on Thursday and had our last set of fingerprints taken. Now we just wait for our Golden Ticket. The USCIS gives us our approval to adopt...or not. Let's just pray for an approval! Once we have this last form we will have everything we need to complete our dossier. It will then be sent to our children's country where they will do a whole lot of work over there so that we can be invited to their country to meet our children. Wow! It seems like we are getting closer, but yet we are still so far away :(

This means that we have a lot of fundraising to do and fast! I'm hoping to have our next fundraiser going by the end of the day. That means that I will need to blog a second time in one day. We shall see if I can make that happen.

Please consider keeping us in your thoughts and prayers as we continue to try to raise funds to bring our children home. If you feel you are able to make a donation or want to share our link it is:
www.reecesrainbow.org/sponsorwojcik

Thank you!!!

Hope to get the details of the next fundraiser shortly!

We Have A Winner

First I really want to thank everyone for all of their support with our Ipad Mini Giveaway. I can't thank you guys enough for donating, sharing, praying, etc. We really appreciate each and every one of you. I wish all of you could win. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner.

I guess you want to know who won. Right? Okay, if you insist. The winner is...........Sarah Goodman!!!

Thank you again for all of your support! You guys are the best!

Love,

Jenn :)