T-Minus 11 Days to Wheels-Up T-Minus 16 Days to Ryan It’s Saturday evening and we’re about a week and a half away from departure. We spent the day in the City at the Philadelphia Science Festival. It’s been one of…
Another Connection for Ryan…
T-Minus 18 Days to Wheels-Up T-Minus 23 Days to Ryan Our planning is in high gear now, with only a few more days until the suitcases come out – and the rough packing gets underway. Luckily we won’t need to…
Connecting with Friends (New for Us, Old for Him)
T-Minus 24 Days to Wheels-Up T-Minus 29 Days to Ryan Thinking back to our first journey with our oldest son Kyle, we didn’t have tools like Facebook to enable us to reach out and reconnect with old friends and find…
A Few More Good Days…and Some More Clarity
The good news keeps coming. It’s only been a few days since the post-TA machinery lurched into gear, and we’ve already received definitive confirmation for our Consulate Appointment. Even better, we have confirmed that Ryan will officially be joining Team…
TA Received Today!
Today, despite the winter-like temperatures during the first few days of spring here in SE Pennsylvania, was a good day. We heard from our Agency that we’ve received our TA (Travel Approval), and can now make arrangements for our Consulate…
Happy 6th Birthday!!
Shifting to the Present (after catching up a bit on some background…) A few days ago, Ryan celebrated his 6th birthday! This not being our first rodeo, we reached out to one of our trusted contacts – Adele at Blessed…
A Remarkable and Fortunate Stroke of Luck (from last Summer…) Pt. 2 (Conclusion)
Continuing… After we hung up the phone, attention shifted to prepping for our next-day trip to NY to meet the little boy who might end up being ours forever. The kids were still awake, and were sort of following the…
A Remarkable and Fortunate Stroke of Luck (from last Summer…) Pt. 1
Thanks for visiting again…still playing catch-up… Last summer, after we’d learned about Ryan through our agency, but before we’d made any commitments, our story took an incredible turn. When parents find children who they think might be good fits for…
Our Son Ryan
Our Son Ryan During the first few weeks of our search, we knew two things for certain. First, that we would choose the special needs path, and second that we would be choosing either a boy or a girl. We…
And So We Begin…
Welcome to our adventure. You are joining this story somewhat “in-progress” so we’ll do our best to build out the early chapters for you. And once we’ve done that, we will try to bring you along with us during our…