Welcome!!!

Hello blog followers!!!

I am so excited you have made your way to the Peanut Butter and Jelly Adoption blog! I will be updating this page as often as is necessary to communicate important happenings in the world of our adoption. I will be sure to update where we are in the paperwork process and any important/fun/interesting information.

Today, I'd like to thank people who have made donations! Nichole T, Lisa B, Nancy S, Rachel G, Jonathan A, and Samantha F, thank you so much for your donations! At the end of each day I will be posting a portion of a picture of Jelly. Each day, this picture will grow in accordance with how close to our $2000 goal we are. Currently, we have raised $625. That's AWESOME! That is roughly %31 of our $2000 mini goal. So, I will post a partial pic tomorrow based on what %age we earn by the end of today. So exciting!

I will take time tomorrow to fill you in on the paperwork process and the timeline so that you know how the adoption works. We are excited to get this ball rolling. We have been told the average timeline for an adoption from this specific country is about 14 months - but we hope it won't take us that long. Our home study update should be done by May 1st; then it's paper chasing until we have all of the documents we need. Hopefully, our dossier will be complete and ready to be mailed to Eastern Europe by August 1st. If that holds true, we should have our first trip scheduled for November-ish and the pick up trip 2-3 months after that. We are really hoping that all the pieces fall together this way. 14 months is a long time!!!

Thanks for joining and for your support!