Friday, July 11, 2008

Keep Believing With Us!


I don't really have any news on the adoption. I just wanted to let you know how grateful we are for each of you. Without all of you, this whole process would not possible! Thanks for your prayers, guidance, support, love and encouragement. We are so close now to bringing her home! Keep believing with us!

I have made some new friends from other adoptive moms. Most of them are adopting or have adopted from Guatemala! These families have really reached out to us and I am looking forward to meeting more of them. A friend suggested that I read a blog from a couple in Franklin, TN that is almost in the same time frame that we are in. The mom is actually spending the rest of the time down in Guatemala with their child. I did not even realize we could do this. I kind of wish we had planned better and I could go and be with Chloe until we bring her home. They said it is really not too expensive since you divide the expenses with other moms that want to be down there and are able too. God has just opened up doors for me to ask a lot of questions and compare time frames with these other families which has really been a comfort to us. We changed the website to honor Miss Chloe Bug for her 1st Birthday which is this month - July 17th. Check it out www.chloesjourney.com

Hugs and Love,

The Hollemans

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Our Very First Blog



Hey everyone. . . . We are very new to this whole blog thing. A friend told us of other adoptive parents that were adopting from Guatemala that have a blog, so we wanted to start a blog in hopes of making some friends with other adoptive parents. We feel alone and scared going through the whole adoption process right now in Guatemala since we do not know anyone else currently adopting. We have only received 3 pictures (with one set being the birth picture) from our child in the past year and no pictures since Christmas! We were supposed to already have her but with the new birth mothers interviews, we have been delayed. They are now guesstimating around the end of September. We just found out yesterday that we did get through the birth mothers interview ok. Our little girl's name is Hannah Chloe Holleman. We call this adoption journey.. Chloe's Journey! Check out her website at www.chloesjourney.com.

Thanks for your prayers and we look forward to hearing from many of you and developing long lasting friendships!