Cleveland Adventures

So, I am not really one to write a blog, but I thought I would give it a shot as we go through our adventure of adopting a child from China!  We are now about 7 months in and have finished our application, signed a contract, finished our home study and are working on our dossier!  We have also finished about 23 hours of our required 30 hours of training for this process.  We have met some amazing people through this journey and really learned a lot about our adoption as children of God.  We are so excited to show a picture of the gospel through our adoption!

Today we had to travel to Cleveland (an hour away) to get fingerprinted for Homeland Security.  We actually had been in CO for two weeks, got home on Tuesday and found a letter in the mail saying that our appointment to get fingerprinted was scheduled for Thursday at 11am.  So thankful we didn't get home two days later!  We're also thankful Evan's coworkers and boss were flexible and understanding and let him take the morning off so we could make the appointment.  The letter said if we did not get there at the appointed time, they would consider our request abandoned!

We are not really city people and forgot coins for meters, so we found a parking garage close by.  We parked, headed in for our appointments, then two hours later made it back to our car.  Evan found a note on the driver side window: DO NOT EVER PARK IN THIS SPOT AGAIN!  I PAY TO PARK HERE MONTHLY.  Oops.  If the person who left that note ever sees this blog, please forgive us!  We did not realize it was a reserved spot and we sincerely apologize!!  I know it would not be fun to pay for a specific spot and then have a random person take it from me. :(

If anyone would like to see a video about our journey, you can see that here: www.adoptalovestory.com/family/dlugosz