We are the Pratts

Being that this blog will mostly be seen only by our friends and family, we won't bore you with long introductions. You probably already know that we are Erin & Andy Pratt, and we live in Duluth, Minnesota. We were married in June 2003 and met two years before that. We want to have children and we have felt called to adopt a child for some time now. We were drawn to adopt a child from Guatemala for some practical reasons--like the fact that most adopted children are quite young--and also for some emotional and spiritual reasons (but probably not financial reasons!).

We began the process with an adoption agency in the Twin Cities around October 2005. We had to attend an introductory meeting, complete an application, attend adoptive parents classes, fill out information for multiple background checks, complete a long homework assignment for our agency, attend two interviews with our social worker, get fingerprinted twice, fill out mountains of documents to be sent to the Guatemalan government, get every document notarized/certified/authenticated, and wait! Right now we are officially "in line" to receive a referral of a child from Guatemala.

Obviously, this is a very exciting time for us, and we decided to share it with you through this blog. We will be posting various comments throughout the coming months, along with a lot of pictures of the newest addition to our family! Please feel free to comment on the information here; we can always use your support. I think writing about what is happening is somewhat therapeutic, so I'll be excited to add to this blog once we get more information.

Now I have to learn some Spanish...