Today we met with our adoption counselor and we got to read our home study report. It was very interesting to read a 9 page story about ourselves. We had to fill in a few blanks on things we had left out of our 20 page paper we wrote to her. It also included a few quotes from our confidential reference letters written by friends and family. Thanks for doing those everyone, they were great. We are going to have to be billed for the $2100 and she wasn't excited about that, but they have us because we can't go on until they get their money.
We did get the instructions for our dossier though, we just can't turn it in until we have the last payment paid. Plus the dossier includes another $800 payment. In this step we need more reference letters, a letter from Lance, answer more questions, police reports and psych evaluations. Plus some other stuff that I can't remember now. We were told it should take us about a month to complete. Then we mail it to our agency, they finish it and mail it to the Philippines. After that we wait for notice that the Philippines got it, it takes about a month for that.
So, we are moving along. We are just taking each step as it comes. It will all work out at some point, just not as fast as we had hoped. We'll keep you updated.
2 comments:
If you ever need some insight into the waiting part and how to lean on God through it all, Pastor Dan and Sharon can give you tips. They had to dot every I and cross every T at least twice and had several delays and filled out forms (sometimes the same form) more than once. But little Joseph was definitely worth the wait.
It sounds like you are on your way. It is all very exciting. There is a child (or children) out there that will be truly blessed to have you and Ryan as parents.
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