Home Study Complete!

Oh those words sound so good. I received an email from my home study agency on Sunday saying that our home study was finally updated and complete. Our placement agency accepted in on Tuesday 3/18. Now it is on its way to Immigration. We should get an appointment to have our fingerprints taken in Hartford soon. Hopefully by the end of the month but maybe the first week in April. Then we wait for approval. Please pray it comes quickly, although I have heard that many are waiting about a month for immigration approval.

For now, I have most of the documents for our dossier all set to go to Hartford to get authenticated. I am waiting on my letter of employment, week 3 of waiting for that. UGH! The only other documents needed are the home study, which I should have by Monday and then our immigration approval notice.

HUGE STEPS FORWARD!!! But it still seems like so far to go. Still praying for an early fall travel. Prayers please!

Home Study

Well, not much new to report. Our social worker will be coming this Saturday, 2/23. So one big step forward. I am looking forward to seeing Christine again. She was our social worker when we adopted Colby so it will be nice to be reunited. Hopefully things will move quickly with our home study and I can start working on our dossier paperwork. Everything else is done and just waiting. Mike and I went out for a nice Valentine's dinner this past Saturday and looked briefly at cribs and baby things but we aren't sure what we will need yet. Hopefully we will get a referal in the Spring and I can spend the summer shopping and getting things ready. If we are referred a little girl, I'd love a white crib and dresser. We will need a new crib and dresser, since Colby's crib turned into his full size bed. We'll also need to get a new high chair, car seat, and all the essentials for eating. Colby was 22 months when he came home and didn't use bottles, only sippy cups. In our moving homes, we had purged a lot of the baby stuff. But or now, we just wait and see. Once we get the referal, we will know so much more. So, fingers crossed, prayers sent, that we complete the home study quickly and effortlessly.....