The First of Many Wahoooooo Moments!

Wahooooooo!!!!!  Just got the news that our Home Study has been approved!  

The Waiting Game

I will probably say this a lot but I'm tired of waiting.  I have to constantly remind myself that my little girl just isn't quite ready yet and that in God's timing she will be here.  However, it still sucks!  Today we are waiting on our Home Study to be approved.  My social worker had it completed last week and sent it over to my Family Coordinator over at the adoption agency (AWAA) but she was out of the office until today due to a family emergency.  So now she needs to play catch up with all her peeps which is making the process of approval take even longer. 

So until then we are doing what we can with our I-800.  More forms, ugh!  One thing that we did find out was that our I-800 is WAY more expensive than we orignally thought it to be.  We were told by our Social Worker that she thought it was $60 per person filing to have the fingerprints ran.  NOPE!  It is $750!!  That is total, not each.  Our next payment to the adoption agency follows closely behind when we send in our Dossier, that is over $4000.  

SO, with all that being said while we wait for our Home Study approval we are looking up ways to fund raise for our little girl.  Looking at doing a Bowling Fundraiser on June 27th, who's down?  It would be $20 per person and it includes 3 games of cosmic bowling, shoes, and pizza.  We need all the help we can get at this point, and I'm trying to do as many Origami Owl parties as I can to make the money to pay these next two bills.  I'm currently about $3000 shy.  

I fully trust that God will provide us with the funds as he has so far, now it's just to make it happen.  

Love you all for always supporting us and loving on us.  We appreciate all our friends and family more than you will ever know.

Home Study Complete!

Another milestone in this journey.  Our Home Study visits are finally finished!  Now with them all wrapped up it will be typed up by our Social worker and sent to her boss, us, and my adoption agency for review.  Once it gets the seal of approval from all of us it will be notarized and finished!  Whoo-hoo!  For those of you asking, here are our next steps:

• Notarize our completed Home Study 
• File for our I-800
• Take all our Dossier documents to the SOS and get them State Certified
• Travel to Chicago to the Chinese Embassy to have our Dossier Authenticated
• Mail Dossier to our Adoption Agency
• Adoption Agency translates Dossier to Chinese and sends it to China
• China approves it and Logs it in .  Giving us a Log in Date (LID)
• Start receiving referrals.