Howdy!!!
We had out IUI on Wednesday. We hosted Christmas parties with a house exploding with guests on both Tuesday and Thursday, so the timing could not have worked any better. The IUI was more painful that normal, and took 4 tries to get the catheter to work. Poor Ty had to witness my cringing face in pain. The sample was good after being washed and spun. We had over 9 million and 98.1% were alive and swimming! Yeah! I tried to take ti easy that evening to allow my little baby to form. We are hopeful and very peaceful this time around. Before we got over excited and hopeful, and had alot riding on the result. Now, having Ma-mush n his way home not too long from now, the pressure is off and the peace is a wonderful feeling. Regardless of the results we will be blessed with the opportunity to raise our son to be a disciple.
On another note..Lisa called today and Ethiopia found 2 numbers on different forms that did not match other forms. We are going to fix, notarize and overnight in hopes of not slowing down the process. At first I was frustrated and then Ty reminded me, that if out of 3000 pages, 2 were incorrect, then we have a pretty good rate going.
Thanks to everyone as usual for the prayers, clothes, toys and love you have already provided our son/sons. We are truly starting to understand the phrase that it "takes a village to raise a child"!!!
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
December 10th,2009
Howdy!
Well last week the pregnancy test came back negative as expected, but we had better new even! Lisa called and said we could send in our i600a which is basically the form in order to open a case at Homeland Security in order to bring our son home through immigration. Basically it is 1 sheet of paper that cost almost a thousand dollars, that allows us to bring our son home in 2010! We have had the paper completed and waiting to send, so the go ahead was a very exciting moment. The site said we could send a personal check, but after Ty left the post office he had an odd feeling and called Lisa who told him to not send a check but a money order to process it faster. Ty called the post office to hold the mail and had to go back and reclaim it to put a money order in....yikes..the drama that we have! We also got disappointing news. The government has made so many cuts in funding and positions that immigration and court hearing might take a few months longer than anticipated. In other words, in stead of reuniting our family in summer 2010 it might be leaning toward fall or early winter. At first we were very heart broken, however we know God has perfect timing and we must obey his will.
On a fertility note....we finished our round of Clomid and have an appt on Tuesday with a plan for an IUI on Wednesday. We are excited, nervous and at peace all at the same time. We rarely think about biological children knowing God plans for us to adopt, but know he works multiple miracles at once. The opportunity to have a shot at multiple children who came to us in different ways is amazing. We are all His children and look forward to raising our children as His!
Well last week the pregnancy test came back negative as expected, but we had better new even! Lisa called and said we could send in our i600a which is basically the form in order to open a case at Homeland Security in order to bring our son home through immigration. Basically it is 1 sheet of paper that cost almost a thousand dollars, that allows us to bring our son home in 2010! We have had the paper completed and waiting to send, so the go ahead was a very exciting moment. The site said we could send a personal check, but after Ty left the post office he had an odd feeling and called Lisa who told him to not send a check but a money order to process it faster. Ty called the post office to hold the mail and had to go back and reclaim it to put a money order in....yikes..the drama that we have! We also got disappointing news. The government has made so many cuts in funding and positions that immigration and court hearing might take a few months longer than anticipated. In other words, in stead of reuniting our family in summer 2010 it might be leaning toward fall or early winter. At first we were very heart broken, however we know God has perfect timing and we must obey his will.
On a fertility note....we finished our round of Clomid and have an appt on Tuesday with a plan for an IUI on Wednesday. We are excited, nervous and at peace all at the same time. We rarely think about biological children knowing God plans for us to adopt, but know he works multiple miracles at once. The opportunity to have a shot at multiple children who came to us in different ways is amazing. We are all His children and look forward to raising our children as His!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
December 1st,2009
Howdy!!!
I know you must be shocked I promised to give an update immediately after the appointment and surprise-surprise..I am!!! Yes it might be the first time I followed through, but there is a first time for everything. We had an US and they said everything looked great. We saw her print the pics and add the US pics to our file..i couldn't help but giggle. We have had over 100 US and each one has 4 pictures printed, so our files have increased to 3 volumes each as thick as a dictionary. After the US, Marta said they were going to draw blood for a pregnancy test and hormones. As I got dressed Ty and I just looked at each other in silence...a pg test? WOW!!! We don't feel pregnant, and are totally at peace waiting for our son. In a way we had forgotten about a biological child. We know God plans for our son, but have no idea what other blessings he plans to provide. We simply want to follow his plan. They will call tomorrow with results and if we are not pregnant the plan is to start Clomid this week and then an IUI the week before Christmas. How exciting to "try" again...but not nearly as exciting as bringing Ma-Mush home!Thank you to all our supporters, family and prayer partners, God is good!
I know you must be shocked I promised to give an update immediately after the appointment and surprise-surprise..I am!!! Yes it might be the first time I followed through, but there is a first time for everything. We had an US and they said everything looked great. We saw her print the pics and add the US pics to our file..i couldn't help but giggle. We have had over 100 US and each one has 4 pictures printed, so our files have increased to 3 volumes each as thick as a dictionary. After the US, Marta said they were going to draw blood for a pregnancy test and hormones. As I got dressed Ty and I just looked at each other in silence...a pg test? WOW!!! We don't feel pregnant, and are totally at peace waiting for our son. In a way we had forgotten about a biological child. We know God plans for our son, but have no idea what other blessings he plans to provide. We simply want to follow his plan. They will call tomorrow with results and if we are not pregnant the plan is to start Clomid this week and then an IUI the week before Christmas. How exciting to "try" again...but not nearly as exciting as bringing Ma-Mush home!Thank you to all our supporters, family and prayer partners, God is good!
...25 days to the celebration of the birth of our Christ!
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