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our journey across the miles to our Rwandan son
Video journey of our miles to Myles, by Uncle Paul
our referral picture
Meaning of Myles Mugisha
Myles (name given by us)
-Respect to a man who impacted our lives eternally, Miles Strodel
-The literal miles our Myles was brought to come home
-Hebrew meaning: “Gift from God”
Mugisha (name given by the sisters at the orphanage)
In Kinyarwanda the meaning is “Blessing”
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Mylestones
-5/13/09 FAMILY DAY! We are together at last!
-5/12/09 Leave Ethiopia for Dulles
-5/10/09 to Ethiopia for Visa
-5/2/09 Meet Myles for the first time!
-5/1/09 Peter and Laurel fly to Rwanda
-4/20/09 COURT DATE! Myles Mugisha Greer is our son!!!!
-4/13/09 Get our Rwandan court date scheduled for Monday, April 20!
-3/26/09 REFERRAL!!!
-2/17/09 Receive e-mail from the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion of our APPROVAL to adopt!
-11/24/08 Our file arrives in Rwanda and goes directly to the Prime Minister’s Office!
-11/20/08 Gladney sends dossier to Rwanda!
-11/13/08 Corrections made and dossier sent to Gladney
-10/28/08 Authenticated dossier arrived at Gladney with slight errors
-10/06/08 Rwandan Embassy Authenticating our dossier
-9/29/08 FedEx our dossier to Gladney!
-9/26/08 CIS approval!!! 5 month wait L
-6/11/08 CIS receives our homestudy
-6/11/08 FBI sends clearances
-6/05/08 Certificate of Gladney Approval!
-5/29/08 Get fingerprinted for CIS
-5/30/08 FBI prints FedExed
-5/01/08 CIS confirms receipt of application for I-600A
-4/28/08 Homestudy
-4/18/08 FedExed I-600A to CIS
-3/26/08 Stage 2 & 3 of Paperwork sent to Gladney
-3/04/08 Child Abuse sent, returned to us 3/15/08
-3/03/08 Initial Application Form(Stage 1)
-1/29/08 Adoption Information Sheet sent to get information about the brand new Rwandan program with Gladney Center for Adoption!
14 comments:
YAYYYYYY! I'm so happy to hear this news Laurel!
YAHOO! Loved the joy in your voice this morning! Jennifer
Oh my goodness!!! We're celebrating with you!! So...what exactly does this mean? What's the next step? When do you go????
Congratulations! That's great! I bet you're on Cloud 9!! :)
Wow! Praises to the Lord! So excited for all of you!
Oh my goodness... what awesome news!!!! I am thrilled for you guys. Getting closer to Myles... soon you will have a picture in hand! congratulations.
I've been following your blog closely and I'm so happy to get this exciting news. congratulations.
hooooooooooooray!!! Will be praying for those making referral decisions. Much love to the Greers!
congratulations!!! how very exciting!! :D
Yeah! CONGRATULATIONS! I am guessing it felt like this day would never come and then there it was!
Kari
Africainourhearts.blogspot.com
I am so very excited for you!!!!
Awesome news!!! So excited for you guys!
Praise the Lord! We are excited with you and for you!
Much love
we are so excited for you!!!!!!
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