We had hoped to have our home study in our hands at the end
of January. Alas it is not
so. B’s fingerprints were
rejected and I believe that to be the very last thing we need. Hopefully soon. We could have gotten them taken
sooner, but had a hard time finding a place that would take our
fingerprints. Our town will only
taken them at certain times of the week, all when I am working! And while we did find an alternate
place to take them we’ve been pushed back by Burton’s prints being rejected. We are just waiting for the H.S. to
send in our i600a. Our H.S. ALSO
has the originals we need to get out dossier together.
Once our Dossier is together we have some decisions to
make. We can either let the
lawyers and our agency (more on that below) know we are ready for a referral,
or we can wait until our i600a is approved and then ask for our referral. What’s the difference? Time. If we wait for the i600a then we will have all the
paperwork we need through the DRC court hearings and our lawyer can just move
through the process. If we don’t
wait for the i600a the lawyer can go through the first two steps of the process
but must wait for our i600a to proceed to court. So it is a gamble.
Will we be ready for court BEFORE the i600a? or will it all come
together and we might have a referral earlier than we would have. Of course there is the resources needed
for each step.
We are not there, so we can’t even make the decision yet. We
will see where all of it stands after our Dossier is done.
In VERY exciting news our facilitator, DRC Adoption
Services, has become a licensed child placing agency! This smoothes our process considerably and we still get to
work with the two amazing women that we feel are the best chance in completing
an entirely ethical adoption.
In other news we have a small committed team for running
various race lengths on October 12th. We hope more of those who have expressed interest will be committing
soon as they learn more about their fall schedules. I’ve also started quilting again. Hopefully if I can complete this first quilt
and still enjoy it I’ll be opening an Etsy store to sell them for funding. I’ll post some pictures once I have one
done.
That is about it on the adoption front over here. Hopefully I’ll get some more reading in
soon and can post some book reviews.
~M
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