Today we received our copy of our completed home study. This means that the State of Arizona had certified us to be able to adopt. YAY!! Actually, it looks like it was sent over a month ago, but got lost in the postal system, but we have it now. This is the first big piece of the adoption puzzle. The process is basically this: Home Study, Dossier, Referral, Gotcha Day. Up until recently, we have been busy with writing biographies, collecting certified copies of basically every legal document we are connected to (and getting them notarized in triplicate), doctor appointments for physicals, fingerprints, and gathering reference letters. We have been active participants in the process up until now. Now we wait.
Right now we are waiting for the Department of Homeland Security to schedule us to get our biometric fingerprints. Once that is done, our dossier (the actual adoption application and background info) will be sent to Ethiopia and we wait.
We are excited to have this step done, but also know that we are still a long way from bringing our baby girl home. We do have one big job to work on; getting the money together. We have been researching organizations the present grants to families like ours to help with the cost of adoption. Most of them require the home study to be completed and certified, before you can apply. This is our current task.
Please continue to keep our family and our baby girl in your prayers. I cannot say enough how grateful we are to our friends and family that are supporting us financially and prayerfully through this process.
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