Monday, March 28, 2011
Advice
It was mentioned in a SAC meeting about being able to use donated Sky Miles does anyone have more detail about that?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Our Story
As many of you know our story I will try to make it a short version. Siminar to other stories we knew our family was not complete. Yet we have had some pretty dramatic steps in this journey.
Nine years ago I knew as I was pregnant with my fifth we where not done having children Which was hard to realized since that pregnancy had just cost us $16000 for IVF to conceive. but no worries as we still had 12 frozen embryos but after 2 more attempts, no more embryos or pregnancies
We then went through 2 years of Derrick's Chemotherapy for Cancer. He was 7 at that time. When Derrick had his Wish granted by the Make a Wish Foundation he wished for a baby brother. (our course this was a Wish they could not help with).
With all of us sharing the feeling our family was not complete, I started the daily injection both David and I went under the "knife" for an other IVF cycle . We where so devastated when the pregnancy test was negative! We wondered if we were crazy when we felt so prompted to have another child.
. When the prompting continued we look into adoption. would start down that path and a door would slam in our faces. As my biological clock tick on I decided to put that dream behind me and just be grateful for the 5 wonderful children and 2 older step children.
Then a horrible and amazing thing happened. our home burned up on July 30 of 2011. When looking for a piano we meet this family who told us about their impending adoption. Within a month we were hosting two beautiful children from Ukraine In the few week they were here the realized our family was headed for completion.
We love them, the 13 year girl and the 12 year old boy, they were fun, loving, and we seemed to bond well. We were disappointed when they said "No" to being adopted. We told them if they changed there minds when they got home to write us (I sent pre address envelopes home with them). We knew we where going to Ukraine, that that is where the rest of our Family is. I hoped they would be the ones coming home with me. My husband and other children had no doubts so we prayed every day for the right thing to happen. Then in February one of the happiest day of our lives was a phone call with two children telling us they did want to be part of our family. Now you know why we call this our Mosteller Miracle!
Nine years ago I knew as I was pregnant with my fifth we where not done having children Which was hard to realized since that pregnancy had just cost us $16000 for IVF to conceive. but no worries as we still had 12 frozen embryos but after 2 more attempts, no more embryos or pregnancies
We then went through 2 years of Derrick's Chemotherapy for Cancer. He was 7 at that time. When Derrick had his Wish granted by the Make a Wish Foundation he wished for a baby brother. (our course this was a Wish they could not help with).
With all of us sharing the feeling our family was not complete, I started the daily injection both David and I went under the "knife" for an other IVF cycle . We where so devastated when the pregnancy test was negative! We wondered if we were crazy when we felt so prompted to have another child.
. When the prompting continued we look into adoption. would start down that path and a door would slam in our faces. As my biological clock tick on I decided to put that dream behind me and just be grateful for the 5 wonderful children and 2 older step children.
Then a horrible and amazing thing happened. our home burned up on July 30 of 2011. When looking for a piano we meet this family who told us about their impending adoption. Within a month we were hosting two beautiful children from Ukraine In the few week they were here the realized our family was headed for completion.
We love them, the 13 year girl and the 12 year old boy, they were fun, loving, and we seemed to bond well. We were disappointed when they said "No" to being adopted. We told them if they changed there minds when they got home to write us (I sent pre address envelopes home with them). We knew we where going to Ukraine, that that is where the rest of our Family is. I hoped they would be the ones coming home with me. My husband and other children had no doubts so we prayed every day for the right thing to happen. Then in February one of the happiest day of our lives was a phone call with two children telling us they did want to be part of our family. Now you know why we call this our Mosteller Miracle!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
WORK!
Working, working, Working Trying to balance working my job as a nurse, helping my husband finish our beautiful new home with rooms for our new children!( up late last night staining the front door! And most important the paper work for this adoption. I have a question for all of you that have blazed this amazing path before.Is the I 171 H form what come back form our our 1600 A application or do I need to apply for this form? someone mention having someone email it and the getting it notarized as a copy. I have to thank our county assessor, as our house had burned He had to go today and do a special assessment for our Dossier. He was so nice and prompt about it, I was so grateful. Also Any experience with apostille from other states? David was born in AZ. I would appreciate any help!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Our Miracle
We are the Hoog/Mosteller Family and this is the story of our Miracle. We are on a journey to bring the rest of our family Home! The story is rather long so I will wait until another day to tell our story Just wanted to meet my goal today to start our Blog!
Hi I'm David the other half we have been blessed to have been lead on this strangely unpredictable journey to find the missing part of our family. As time permits we will post this story We see the Lords hand in the events leading us here and as a family we are excitedly waiting for the kids to come home.As we were siting here waiting for time to take Derrick and Dannalee to school there is the possibility that David our friend who will be in the orphanage today will be texting us so we can call and talk to the kids Derrick has been jumping in his seat for the chance to talk to them hoping the text will come in time but we only have ten miniutes till time to leave for school. Dannalee's first words this morning when I woke her up was are they on the phone.
Hi I'm David the other half we have been blessed to have been lead on this strangely unpredictable journey to find the missing part of our family. As time permits we will post this story We see the Lords hand in the events leading us here and as a family we are excitedly waiting for the kids to come home.As we were siting here waiting for time to take Derrick and Dannalee to school there is the possibility that David our friend who will be in the orphanage today will be texting us so we can call and talk to the kids Derrick has been jumping in his seat for the chance to talk to them hoping the text will come in time but we only have ten miniutes till time to leave for school. Dannalee's first words this morning when I woke her up was are they on the phone.
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