Just beginning

Brad and I have been throwing the idea of international adoption for a while. Tom and Rhonda, they are my bosses, just adopted a 10 year old girl (Silu) from India. While they were in the process Brad and I became very interested in pursuing an international adoption. We had originally planned on adopting from India; hoping we may find a girl from the same orphanage as Silu. We started getting things together in the fall of 2008 and ran into a road block: India is a member of the Hague Treaty so the adoption agency we go thru must have Hague accredidation. We are going thru International Family Services and they are waiting on the final word for their accredidation. Therefore, we are unable to pursue an India adoption. We have decided we would like to try for Ethiopia now. We know we want a girl and have decided we would like her a little older so we said age 3-7. We are tossing around the idea of a siblings (crazy I know)but we have not committed to anything yet. We have the application to IFS completed and just have to send it in the mail which I plan on doing tomorrow. We are both very excited and can't wait to find out what's in store with our adoption.