December 17: Phone orientation with Gladney December 18: Requested and received via email Gladney application December 18: Mailed CIS forms December 22: First notarized signature and submission of Gladney application part 1 December 28: Riley, our dog, went to the vet to get his vaccinations up to date-Yes it is part of the paperwork January 5: Submission of Gladney application part 2 January 5: Began foreign dossier paperwork January 11: Completed our health physicals and lab tests January 16: Submission of Gladney application part 3 - finished with Gladney application! January 22: Fingerprinted for FBI clearance February 13: Home study March 4: Gladney approved! March 27: Fingerprinted by CIS May 1: CIS approval received-last piece of paperwork!! May 14: Dossier complete & on the wait list
Sept 19: It's a Boy!!! Oct 31: Got a court date Dec 17: Court date-Approved! Jan 12: Picked up our son in Ethiopia!!
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My husband and I are looking to adopt from Ethiopia, and stumbled across your blog on Gladney's website. I have to say, I'm pretty sure we've never laughed so hard at a video of complete strangers as we did at the dance segment of your "Placement Day" video. :) Love it.
We haven't chosen an agency yet, but are seriously considering Gladney, as well as All God's Children International (www.allgodschildren.org). I would love to know why you chose Gladney, and if you would use them if you were to adopt again in the future?
Thanks for any feedback you can give regarding your experience! Your little guy is adorable!
I hope you check back on my blog for my reply. I couldn't find an email address for you.
Thanks for reading our blog. We love meeting new people beginning their adoption journey.
Yes, we highly recommend Gladney and will use them again for our second adoption. They are very organized and efficient. We loved everybody on their staff. They will also be able to connect you to several families in Dallas who have adopted from Ethiopia.
I do not have any info on AGCI, so I cannot give you much feedback on them.
Congrats on starting the process and best of luck to you!
My husband and I have been following your blog and reading about your journey! We will blessed just reading it. We have just started our process and our doing multiple fundraisers....I love the necklaces featured on your website. I wanted to share with you our blog address http://5millionminus1.blogspot.com We are selling homemade Ethiopia Christmas ornaments. We just wanted share in case you or anyone else you know would be interested. We will continue to pray for your journey as we hope you will for ours!
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Hi Christina & Jeremy!
My husband and I are looking to adopt from Ethiopia, and stumbled across your blog on Gladney's website. I have to say, I'm pretty sure we've never laughed so hard at a video of complete strangers as we did at the dance segment of your "Placement Day" video. :) Love it.
We haven't chosen an agency yet, but are seriously considering Gladney, as well as All God's Children International (www.allgodschildren.org). I would love to know why you chose Gladney, and if you would use them if you were to adopt again in the future?
Thanks for any feedback you can give regarding your experience! Your little guy is adorable!
Take care,
Brittney Van Swearingen
Hi Brittney,
I hope you check back on my blog for my reply. I couldn't find an email address for you.
Thanks for reading our blog. We love meeting new people beginning their adoption journey.
Yes, we highly recommend Gladney and will use them again for our second adoption. They are very organized and efficient. We loved everybody on their staff. They will also be able to connect you to several families in Dallas who have adopted from Ethiopia.
I do not have any info on AGCI, so I cannot give you much feedback on them.
Congrats on starting the process and best of luck to you!
Christina
My husband and I have been following your blog and reading about your journey! We will blessed just reading it. We have just started our process and our doing multiple fundraisers....I love the necklaces featured on your website. I wanted to share with you our blog address
http://5millionminus1.blogspot.com
We are selling homemade Ethiopia Christmas ornaments. We just wanted share in case you or anyone else you know would be interested. We will continue to pray for your journey as we hope you will for ours!
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