Homestudy and INS appointment

Tomorrow, March 17th, our home study will be done and ready to be picked up! Not wanting to wait on the mail, I am going to drive over to pick it up after work tomorrow afternoon. We also have our INS appointment scheduled this week for Friday afternoon. Slowly the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit together....just pray that everything will continue to fall into place for our adoption so that we will be able to bring our new daughter home as quickly as possible. Even though we have know idea who she is or what she looks like, etc. it is so exciting to think that there is a cute little Ethiopian girl who God has chosen to be our daughter. God is so good!

Keep praying her home!

Mike

Brief Home Study Update

Just a brief update regarding the home study document. Corrections have been made and the corrected document has been emailed to our adoption agency, IFS, to be read over to make sure everything looks fine to them. Once we get their approval, the final document will be prepared and given to us. We will let you know once that happens. Our social worker was great to work with and we highly recommend Adoption and Beyond to anyone who needs a home study for any adoption, whether it is domestic or international.

Home Study Visit completed

Thank you to all who prayed for our home study visit to go well. I am pleased to report that it went great! Our social worker was great and it was a very relaxed time for everyone.

Our next steps are to wait to get the draft copy of the final home study report to read over and request corrections as necessary. Then, our social worker will make any needed corrections and then finalize the report for our international agency.

Please pray that this next step goes quickly so we can keep this process rolling along.

Homestudy Visit Rescheduled

Our homestudy visit has been rescheduled to tomorrow, March 1st at 7:00 pm. Our homestudy coordinator was not able to make it today due to the weather. Please pray that she will be able to come tomorrow and that everything will go well so that we can move on to the next step of the process.

Homestudy visit scheduled!

Just a brief note to announce that our home study visit has officially been scheduled! We will home study visit on Saturday, February 28th at 8 a.m. Please pray that all will go well! We are so thankful that our social worker could meet us on Saturday, especially since Sandy's work schedule is getting so crazy as tax season ramps up. Thanks for all your continued prayers as we work to get our little girl home from Ethiopia!

Homestudy documentation submitted!

Just a brief note to let everyone know that the mass of paperwork we were working on for our home study has been submitted to the home study agency for review. We are hoping to have our home study visit in the next couple of weeks so that this process can be completed. Keep us in your prayers as we continue to provide what is required of us in order to get our little girl home!

Paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork!

Sorry for the lack of postings lately but we have been running full steam ahead to get all the paperwork done for the home study and the dossier. About the only thing left that we have any control over for the home study is to get fingerprinted (1st of 2 times) on February 11th and to get the kids tested for TB, also on the 11th. After those two steps, we will be ready to turn in our home study documentation. What a relief that will be! We have nearly everything done for our dossier, as well so I am sure it will be a hurry up and wait time for us. Pray for patience for us!

God is so good in providing us so many of you to have as encouragement to us during this adventure. Your friendship and prayers mean more to us than you will ever know.