Isn’t this home beautiful? This is where we’ve spent a lot of our time preparing for our adoption. It is the home of our social worker who is preparing our homestudy. He lives in Ogden so we’ve become quite familiar with getting around down there. Anyway, we had our last homestudy interview last week. Very Exciting. The rest of our reference letters our on their way, as well as the last of our documentation. Craig should have our homestudy written and ready to send to USCIS (immigration) in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully, we’ll have approval by the end of March. Wahoo!!! Its getting closer. We’ve also received the last of the psychological/social/nutritional information on the children. It’s amazing what their little spirits have been through in their lifetimes. They inspire me to move ahead and continue on this path.

My last adoption post was about my experience at previously stated shipping company. If you notice the comments to that post, you’ll see that both major shipping companies contacted me. Isn’t that amazing? All because of a little venting on my blog. Amazing!!!

For those of you wanting to comment on the adoption blog–remember you can use your same username/login as on arhappenings, BUT you must register first. Our blogs have two separate domain names and are therefore not tied to each other. That’s why you have to register separately on both.

Happy Blogging.

My worst fear has been quashed. Adam really isn’t a felon. :) [haha]

Our BCI’s (background checks) cleared this week. YEAH!!! Finally, some good news around here. We didn’t think they would come in until February or March. That means we need to get our booties in gear and finish our portion of the homestudy. We’re almost there. Considering the many slowdowns on our end this past month–this essentially catches us up and puts us back on track. We are still crossing our fingers for a travel date in September.

Here we are pulling out of our driveway in the fog, snow, slush, and mist to make the one hour drive to our social worker’s house for our first meeting. (If you click on the picture you will see Adam waving to the camera :) I wasn’t nervous at that point because it was only an initial–get your paperwork–say hello–type meeting. It turned out great. Craig is going to be very easy and wonderful to work with. I felt super comfortable. All of our interviews will be held at Craig’s house. It is a beautiful home–I’ll have to make sure to get a picture next time–it was too wet and slushy to pull the camera out this go-around.

We have the opportunity of participating in an online adoptive parent education program. We also get to attend monthly seminars in Ogden that address pertinent adoption topics such as culture, institutions, attachment, etc… Some of my journal posts are elaborations of questions I was required to answer for the education program.