July 25, 2010

We have been busy gathering documents, renewing passports, getting fingerprinted, and writing our autobiograhpies! We are in the midst of our homestudy and have much reading and educational workbooks, training sessions, and online courses to complete yet. I feel as if we are moving forward, yet not moving ahead at all. I hope that by October we can have this part of the process completed. It just seems so far away.

June 28, 2010

We had our online call with our case worker from AGCI to go our our dossier. My head is spinning! I'm trying to keep straight which paperwork we have to do for our homestudy and which overlaps with our dossier and which ones are different and which ones need notarized (all of them!!!) and which we need to focus on first. I'm going to try to make a to do list each week with just a handful of tasks to complete so that I can feel as if I am making progress.

June 23, 2010

June 23, 2010
We had our second home visit from our case worker from Baby Fold. She gave our oldest boys "homework" which they were eager to start! It's been cute to see them begin to process all of this. Gavin and Keaton have been spontaneously sharing with others about the adoption. They are talking about it more and I see their own anticipation now.

June 21, 2010

This past weekend two of my dearest friends coordinated a garage sale fundraiser for our adoption. Over 25 people donated goods and so many others gave of their time and effort to pull this off! It was amazing! I saw such goodness in people who contributed in such a variety of ways. Our daughter will certainly hear about all of those who cared for her even before they knew here! I feel so blessed!

June 21, 2010

All God's Children emailed that our notarized contracts and first payment had been received! Our Adoption Planner is the mail and we have to set an appointment with our case manager to go through our dossier. We are moving forward with purpose now! I'm trying not to think about that credit card balance right now. We have a year without interest or payments, so I'm not going to put worry into that at this time. I am picturing our little girl and focusing on bringing her to our family.