And We're Off....in 20 Days!!

The past week has been an amazing whirlwind of movement and activity!  We finally have a court date and leave in THREE short weeks!  Yes, 20 days from now we will be on a plane heading toward our SON!

The amount of crazy that the next days will bring will absolutely melt away the first time I watch my husband hold his son, the first time my son holds my hand.   I'm thrilled and terrified.  (That's normal, right?)   :)

All of our love.......

103

Yes, we are still waiting to hear about a court date.  Courts close in mid July until early September so we are (not so patiently) waiting, hoping we can get in before they close. 

We have known about our little man for 103 days today.  For 103 days, my heart grows and breaks a million times a minute.  I have never been so desperate for anything in my life. 

Blessed!

Currently, we are awaiting a court date.  Once we know that, we will plan our travel.  We both plan on staying in country with our little for however long it takes (5-10 weeks approx).  We are both so excited to spend some quality time in our little's homeland immersing ourselves into the culture.  Although we have legal issues to cover while in country, we will also have time to get to know little's native land...and of course, figure out that whole 'parenting' thing!  :) 

We are busily taking care of the final steps to ensure our finances are in order, bills paid, etc...  In working with our agency, we have decided to set a timeline for our fundraising efforts.  If you are interested in supporting the cost of bringing our son home, we graciously ask that you send your donation to ATWA by Friday, March 7th.   This is also the date we plan on closing our t-shirt sales.  Info on both can be found on our blog.

We cannot wait for all of you to meet our little guy and for him to meet our amazing friends and family!

Blessings!
T & K 

Titles of 'Mommy' and 'Daddy'--- Best Gift Ever!!

Things are moving so fast!  What’s that saying, hurry up and wait?  We’re in hurry up and hurry up right now!

What our family desires most is your love, prayers and support.  If you feel compelled to go beyond, know that we are truly grateful.   We have decided to pass on any baby showers in lieu of support to bring Baby Boy home.  Adoptions hold an amazing power of bringing together a community.  It’s beautiful how one beautiful little heart can connect so many. 

For a number of reasons specific to our situation, we’ve decided not to register.  We’ve spent a few years gathering the essentials.  Also, so much of what is out there is newborn stuff (i.e. We have no use for a breast pump!)  For baby boy's sake, we won't be introducing too many 'things' too fast so there’s a good chance items would go unused. 

There are very few things I enjoy shopping for more than a good friend/family’s new baby (c’mon ladies, ya’ll know finding the right bra is an amazing day).  However, we ask that baby boy’s situation calls you to consider the true necessity of a $4 card, a $3 bag, a $10 gift...  Baby boy comes from a tough situation.

Much of our adoption costs go toward supporting our baby’s case, our agency which allows for continued matching of other orphaned babes to their forever families, and supporting baby boy's current home and the amazing people who are caring for him at this moment.  Of course travel costs and time away from work come in to play as well.

If you find yourself drawn to support, please send your donation to the address below with a note about where you’d like the money allocated to (i.e. Lang Family Adoption).  Every penny you designate will go directly toward baby boy.  You will receive a receipt that can be used for tax purposes.  We have roughly $18,000 left to pay not considering travel costs...a daunting number, but we know God will provide.  Baby boy is worth every penny!

We have mere weeks (yikes!) to take care of the financials and we appreciate your prayers as we navigate our way through.  But, there is a face, a beating heart at the end of this crazy journey.  This child is already more loved than he will ever know.  Our struggles have led us here and we couldn’t be more genuinely happy....terrified....but happy!     

All our love,
Tony & Kelly

Across the World Adoptions
395 Taylor Boulevard, Suite 116
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523

Happy New Year!

Although 2013 was quite possibly the hardest year of our lives, we also learned a lot about ourselves and our faith.  I went from spending Christmas Eve completely shaken, to New Years Eve with the most amazing news of our lives!

We are happy to announce that we are the proud new parents of a baby BOY!  Baby boy is around 15-18 months old and is waiting for us right now.  We couldn't be happier and although we know and understand there are still hurdles to jump over & potential obstacles, we have faith that our journey will connect us and bind us together as a family.   We are hoping to travel in March.  Yikes, March!!!

There is so much to do and so much to tell!  Due to a variety of reasons, we have left our current agency and joined a new one.  Our new agency operates on a 'waiting child' premise versus our old agency which was a 'waiting family' program.  'Waiting Children' programs tend to work around those children who are harder to place.  The details are very jumbled/complicated so for our purposes today, we're just going to move forward towards BABY BOY!