I-600 A

We filed with immigration today! Shortly we will be assigned a fingerprint appointment by them. In about six weeks we will have our approval and our dossier will be ready to be sent off!

One Step Closer!!

Our long awaited DCFS approval came on Friday! Only one step left until our Dossier is complete! Alison(SW), Jason and I have a meeting in the morning. I will be turning over our dossier to her. The only thing missing is a form from immigration (I think it is called the I-171H, or something like that). We will be filing for that tomorrow as well and our approval should take about 6 weeks. It is all seeming very real and exciting right now! It has been such a long process to get to this point. Hopefully there will no other delays and we will keep moving right along.

Not related to the adoption- Mckenzie turns 9 tomorrow!!  Her getting older is certainly harder on me than it is on her. I am so proud of who she is growing up to be, but sad that it seems to happen so fast.  The teen years are right around the corner, and I am not ready for that!  

~~~~Happy Birthday Sweetheart. ~~~~

A lot of action on the Bethany Boards! 2 Families arrived home with their children. 1 is currently in Ethiopia, 1 is traveling next week, and 4 families were matched with children. All little boys. It is seeming like the longest wait time anyone has had is about 6 months. They are still saying to expect to wait a year, but seeing how much faster it has been for everyone gives me hope!

The DCFS approval of our home study should have been here by now, but instead they reviewed it and had questions. Our social worker is sending in answers to the questions they had so hopefully the approval will only be a few days away. Due to a new state law we will be required to take 4 additional training hours before we can proceed. So the next 2 weekends we will be attending adoption seminars in various parts of the state.

EVENTUALLY we will have everything completed, and actually have our dossier in Ethiopia!!
I am not big on waiting, but am doing my best to be patient with the whole process, since essentially there is nothing I can do about it anyways!

Congratulations to Shannon, Shadley, Susie who received there referrals this week, I am so excited for you! Kelli- my prayers are with you this week as you travel to pick up Ruby. Safe travels and smooth transitions for you!