yesterday marked our last home visit...this side of the adoption process! the next time we'll see karalee (our social worker...super cool name, right?) will be when we HAVE our chil(ren)! super crazy to think about. it went super smoothly...which was fantastic considering i had been up all morning sick and i didn't get to scrub and clean as much as i had intended.
she found no concerns, nothing to hold us back about and changes that needed to take place. SO...what's next. our home study as a whole is sent to our agency in owensboro, they review it and send it to the stateside part of our tawainese organization...they review it...and send it to taiwan to be translated into mandarin (the official language of taiwan) ....and....drumroll...we get placed on the waiting list!!
and we wait.
the real waiting begins.
sigh.
we will begin our dossier now too...and praying our government gets off of it's shut down status because a majority of that needed paperwork will go through homeland security, etc.
so this HUGE home study process is done...and in a SHOCKING 5 1/2 weeks time....officially it won't be done until our last reference letter is received this week (that we didn't know we were missing), but yes. we are done with the home study. i made a copy of all the 150 pages of paperwork last week when i sent it all to the agency last week (type A much?...was nervous it'd get lost in the mail and we'd lose everthing lol). so needless to say, between our DVD educational curriculum, mass amounts of questionnaires, fingerprinting appointments etc, AND our normal working lives and church involvement, this has easily been the busiest two months of our lives.
we. are. so. excited.
she found no concerns, nothing to hold us back about and changes that needed to take place. SO...what's next. our home study as a whole is sent to our agency in owensboro, they review it and send it to the stateside part of our tawainese organization...they review it...and send it to taiwan to be translated into mandarin (the official language of taiwan) ....and....drumroll...we get placed on the waiting list!!
and we wait.
the real waiting begins.
sigh.
we will begin our dossier now too...and praying our government gets off of it's shut down status because a majority of that needed paperwork will go through homeland security, etc.
so this HUGE home study process is done...and in a SHOCKING 5 1/2 weeks time....officially it won't be done until our last reference letter is received this week (that we didn't know we were missing), but yes. we are done with the home study. i made a copy of all the 150 pages of paperwork last week when i sent it all to the agency last week (type A much?...was nervous it'd get lost in the mail and we'd lose everthing lol). so needless to say, between our DVD educational curriculum, mass amounts of questionnaires, fingerprinting appointments etc, AND our normal working lives and church involvement, this has easily been the busiest two months of our lives.
we. are. so. excited.
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