DONE!! I really can't believe that our homestudy process is over already. We still have a few more things to get: letter from Billie's employer, my medical form, Billie's medical form, and our TB tests.
My medical form is in the process of being completed...hopefully by the end of the week. Billie's form is proving to be a bit more difficult. You see, he doesn't ever get sick, so he's not an established patient anywhere. Which means that he can't get in to see a doctor until sometime in July...which is a month too long. We have a friend at church that's a ER doctor, so he's going to see if he can pull a few strings with her so that we can get this show on the road.
So that's all we lack until our homestudy is "officially" done. Our caseworker is on the ball and will probably have our report done lickety-split.
We were fingerprinted yesterday...electronically...which was pretty dern cool.
Stay tuned...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Homestudy #3...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Homestudy #2...
DONE! Kim came this morning and did our individual interviews. We gave her some more of our paperwork and we've got some more to work on today.
We have to get our background check fingerprints done today as well. Warner Robins, here we come!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Our first homestudy!
We had our first homestudy yesterday! Our caseworker's name is Kim and she is the sweetest thing. She took a tour of the house and gave us a rundown of what the next 2 visits will be like. We were given a couple more things to sign before her next visit, which is tomorrow. She said that she'll probably have our report written up by this weekend. Unbelievable, seeing as though these things can take from 6-8m weeks to finish.
I have to order copies of the girls' birth certificates, which I didn't know until yesterday that I needed to have. But after those are here and we get our reference letters in and get our background check done, we'll be good to go.
Like I've said before, this is a huge leap of faith for us. I'm starting to stress about the money part of this. We are waiting for our dossier packet to arrive from AAI, so after that's finished and turned in, we owe 1/2 of the big chunk, then when we get our referral, we owe the other 1/2...then there's still travel to take care of. I know that God is bigger than all of this, and I'm trying my hardest not to stress...but those $$$ signs are HUGE. But my Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills! And THAT my friends, is very exciting to know!
Update more later...
Sunday, June 8, 2008
You've gotta love Priority Mail!
I dropped our first bit of paperwork to send to AAI, which is located in WA, at 4:30 afternoon on Friday. It's already in Federal Way, WA, which is only 2 hrs from it's destination, in Port Angeles. So that means that AAI should have our stuff in their hands by tomorrow afternoon. We'll see! I promise that I'm not going to track everything like this on the blog, but I just love being able to track important info!
