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 The girls are HOME!! We brought the girls home at the end of October!  They are doing really well and everything feels so natural!  Glory to God for bringing everything together in HIS time! The last few weeks before we brought the girls home were probably the hardest few weeks of our lives.  I can honestly say that was the hardest thing I have ever done!  The emotional ups and downs were off the chart!  Greg and I tried to jump in front of God...hindsight is 20/20!  Once we were able to back up and just wait on His timing, everything came together! We took Eli with us to pick up the girls!  He was such an incredible help and blessing!  I can't imagine the trip without him!   We want to thank you all for your love and support over the last 4 years!  The journey was long and had many turns and twists!  We are beginning a new journey as a family of 9 now!  We will continue to covet your prayers as we all adjust to our new normal!  (I realize how old I am every night when I am exhaus
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The Waiting is Almost Over!!

 I know it has been a while since my last post!  A lot has happened but I just wasn't sure about posting until things were more final!  We have been in this process since October of 2016...almost 4 years.  The adoption is final and now we are just waiting for immigration stuff to be completed so that we can bring our girls home to the USA!   Last July we got our official match for three little girls.  That began a crazy couple of weeks of getting ready for Greg and I to travel to Haiti to meet them and have some time bonding.  We spent the last half of last August in Haiti.  It was such a sweet time of getting to know the girls.  (I have a whole blog post about our trip that I will post when we get them home.) Leaving them there was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do! It is so strange to come home to the US knowing that 3 of your children are miles away.  It is a feeling that I cannot describe.  The craziest thing was that no-one (other than Greg) could understand what
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Fundraising...it feels like a bad word!

We are in this waiting phase...waiting for a match!  While we wait, life goes on.  We are constantly busy with our 4 children and all the craziness that goes along with that.  Then...there is the fundraising!  That word is so difficult for me.  I know I've talked about this before but, I really struggle with fundraising.  I trust that God will provide for this adoption because He has called us to it.  I also trust that other people "want" to be a part of this process.  BUT, none of that makes this any easier.  The reality is that we have to raise about $25000 MORE!  Let me tell you we have seen God move mountains thus far!  He has been so incredibly faithful and provided everything we have needed as we have needed it.  So why is it so difficult to believe He can provide this?!  It's a HUGE amount of money!  I battle with feeling like we are the ones adopting and it's our responsibility to pay for it VS knowing that people want to be a blessing to us by helping.  I
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We have finally entered IBESR!  The wait is on!!  What does that mean?  Our paperwork is in the system in Haiti and they can start considering us for a match! We are expecting that this could take a while...up to 3 years!  However, God is in control and we are comfortable waiting for HIS Timing! I have had several people ask if we were still fundraising.  We are continuing to fundraise.  We have an account set up with Life Song if you would like to make a tax deductible donation (https://mystory.lifesongfororphans.org/stories/called-adopt-2-maybe-3-kids-haiti/)!  We are applying for grants (we have received a couple :)  )!  We are trying to give everyone a break while we wait.  It is exhausting and humbling to ask people for money!!  We will have a large chunk of money due when we do get our match.  I have a few t-shirts left if anyone is interested, email me at tonyamfink@Gmail.com. Shirts available $20 each: Blue- 4 large, 3 medium, 1 youth xl & 3 youth smalls Green- 4 l
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Glory to God!!

All of the glory goes to God!  This morning I am not feeling well physically.  I have a nasty cold but, I am feeling so blessed!  Our fundraiser last night was so overwhelming!  We were blown away by the love and support shown to us by so many people. Let me back up...last night we had a silent auction and pancake supper fundraiser for our adoption expenses.  This was so far out of our comfort zone on SO many levels!  The idea of raising money is very uncomfortable.  The idea of raising money for ourselves magnifies that by about 100!!  Based on the sheer expense of international adoption, we knew we could not do move forward without some help.  We prayed about how best to do this and the silent auction/flapjack fundraiser was born! Now that we had a plan, we needed items for our auction.  Greg is a very talented woodworker (well he's talented at everything;)).  We began in February working on making items for the donation ourselves.  We made pallet signs, centerpieces, trash t
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Mark your calendars for our fundraiser- October 21st!

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Moving on the the next phase!

We have finally completed our home study!  This is super exciting and super scary at the same time.  It is definitely becoming more real!!  What does this mean?  Well,  the home study is lots of paperwork, interviews, and all the information that you could possibly gather about our family.  We had to submit paperwork about our pets.  We had to undergo psychiatric evaluations.  We had to be interviewed as a family and separately!  We had to delve way back into our childhood & upbringing!  We had to submit financial information!  I didn't know as much about myself as I do now;) Once the home study is complete, we have approval to move forward in this crazy process!  Now, we will send all of this information to the US immigration's in order to get approval to adopt from a foreign country.  This will involve submitting our home study, back ground checks, DSS clearance and fingerprints!  I firmly believe that if everyone had to go through all of this in order to have a baby, t
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