we drove home from michigan today and immediately went to church....then immediately came home to finish THOGL application so it can be sent out tomorrow. we could hardly get unpacked before we were working on it!! but as we drove from michigan to indiana over the weekend (to shoot a wedding in my sister's hometown) we scoured the bible and websites for baby names...since they wanted us to consider those and list them out. so that was fun.
on our way to indiana, we realized that our application required references, that couldn't be family, and that needed to be members of our church since our faith background is so important to the organization in taiwan. so we were left in a conundrum. we weren't going to tell anyone about the adopting until we finished the home study...however...in asking for our pastor's reference as well as several other involved church members'...we realized this isn't going to work. no only did we need to give those individuals a heads up, but we didn't want our family to be last to know.
so. my sister was first since we weren't sure when we would see her again, especially in person. so friday night we divulged our secret and they were SOO excited to say the least. my sister has already adopted once and so she was an excellent person to begin with. she's a wealth of knowledge and help and was equally as excited as we were!! we are trying to inform others as we can next week!
ALSO...over the weekend we were assigned our social/case worker for our home studies etc and are getting those scheduled. everything is going so quickly and i feel a bit in a whirlwind of papers and appointments.
on our way to indiana, we realized that our application required references, that couldn't be family, and that needed to be members of our church since our faith background is so important to the organization in taiwan. so we were left in a conundrum. we weren't going to tell anyone about the adopting until we finished the home study...however...in asking for our pastor's reference as well as several other involved church members'...we realized this isn't going to work. no only did we need to give those individuals a heads up, but we didn't want our family to be last to know.
so. my sister was first since we weren't sure when we would see her again, especially in person. so friday night we divulged our secret and they were SOO excited to say the least. my sister has already adopted once and so she was an excellent person to begin with. she's a wealth of knowledge and help and was equally as excited as we were!! we are trying to inform others as we can next week!
ALSO...over the weekend we were assigned our social/case worker for our home studies etc and are getting those scheduled. everything is going so quickly and i feel a bit in a whirlwind of papers and appointments.
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