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Name: Steve
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Gender: Male
Interests: Singing and listenging to good harmony, especially acappella music; Detroit Red Wings, Pistons, Tigers, Lions, Michigan Wolverines (football), Kentucky Wildcats (basketball); hunting, hiking, biking
Occupation: Pastor
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Member Since:
9/9/2005
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| Here is a website that shows a "Gotcha Day" video and some pix of some of the families from AWAA (our agency) who are currently in Rwanda getting their children.
http://lifechange.typepad.com/
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| For a four year old Janaya loves to try out new words, even if she has no idea what they mean. For the last few months she has been letting big fancy words flow from her lips like she knew what she was doing, but it is often pretty obvious that her understanding has yet to arrive. She was listening to Melissa quiz Josiah over his spelling words, and later that day she got my attention and then sincerely proclaimed, "Daddy, I love you OCCASIONALLY!" She thought it was a good thing, and we had a great laugh. Several times.
Well, we are in one of the longest "quiet times" in our adoption journey. The paper chase has been over for a couple of months, and we are currently waiting for approval. Here is where we currently stand.
Our DTR (Dossier to Rwanda) date was June 12.
Average Time to Approval: 2 to 5 months. We are currently a little over two months into this stage.
Average Additional Time to Referral: 3-6 weeks.
Average Additional Time to Court Date: 3-6 weeks.
Average Additional Time to Travel: 1-3 weeks.
There has been a lot of activity this week with people in our Rwandan Yahoo Group. People who were DTR in March and April have been getting approvals. This does not necessarily mean much because things are not always done in order, but it does show that the program is moving along nicely. | | |
| I grew up in a pulp and paper town with gold mines nearby, and sometimes I like to get back to my blue collar roots since I have a white collar pastoring job in a white collar church. Josiah and I went to the Demolition Derby at the Greene County Fair on Tuesday night. The derby itself was not the most exciting this time, partially due to the fact that the number of entries was down a bit on Tuesday as compared to Fridays in the past. But we were entertained by T-shirt slogans--we passed the 40 minute wait by eating popcorn and peanuts and reading redneck T-shirts. Here were three of them.
On an older/middle-aged woman with a long white pony tail: "I don't need your attitude--I've got my own!"
On a guy in his twenties with a long brown goatee and a long brown pony tail: "Hey, that thing got a hemi? Sweet!"
On a middle school girl with a brown pony tail and blonde highlights (what is with all of the T-shirt slogans and pony tails?): "Life is good. Horses make it better."
Ah, yes. Back amongst my people. HAHA. | | |
| I just got off the phone with our adoption coordinator, and here is the latest update.
Tomorrow our dossier is heading to Kigali, Rwanda. Here is the approximate timetable from here forward based on current trends.
Time to Approval: 2 to 4 1/2 months.
Additional Time to Referral: 3-6 weeks.
Additional Time to Court Date: 3-6 weeks.
Additional Time to Travel: 1-3 weeks.
So what does all this mean? The earliest times add up to the end of August, and the later times come out to the first half of January. So this would seem to be our range. Things are moving along.
We would appreciate any prayers on our behalf concerning the match. We have requested two siblings as young as possible, but that is not a guarantee. We are open to either sex, and we requested not older than 48 months. Our adoption coordinator thinks that it is doable, but plenty can happen in an international adoption. | | |
| Bad news of the day: Dayton is losing its professional hockey team, the Dayton Bombers, at least for one year. There is not enough corporate support and not enough community support in this current economy they say. Personally, although those factors are realities, I also think that they need to market the Bombers and hockey a lot better.
Best saying of the week: "Don't become a pessimist. It wouldn't work out anyway."
Something I never really knew before: when my hair grows out a bit, it is actually somewhat curly. Not super curly, but not too straight, either. I don't really know what to do with longer hair (at least mine), and I don't really plan on leaving it that way long enough to figure it out. :)
Is there such a thing as a man's musical? Josiah and I watched Newsies last week (I had seen it years ago), and he liked it a lot. It is pretty rough and tumble in places, and the guys in the film do some pretty athletic stuff. We had some good conversations about the way sin affects both unions/working men and owners/wealthy men. The world view presented is not biblical, but it is based on a true story around the turn of the century. It is also interesting to think of a young Englishman named Christian Bale copping a New York accent for the film.
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