Thursday, October 8, 2009

It's Done!!!!!!!

So last night I was obsessively checking my e-mail to see if our homestudy had been approved.....and I do mean obsessively. :) Well, since All God's Children is 2 hours behind us I though just maybe there was a chance, and it was only some updates and paragraph type changes....so....you can imagine my EXCITEMENT when I saw an e-mail from Emily saying it was good to go! Yeah!!!!!!!

OK so I mentioned this on facebook, but I will review - I was completely bummed- ok honesty strikes- I was UPSET on Monday. Our homestudy social worker called and said that when she checked in with the person in IA who was supposed to do our background check for us....they told her they never recieved it. WHAT????? That was faxed 2 weeks ago!!!! What do you mean??? Now you get the picture my brain was about to explode. Other than some changes/issues that just needed to be reworded or added...this was the only piece missing from a complete homestudy which would complete our dossier!

So after - honesty stikes again- a lot of crying and praying....I calmed down. Jason was saying- you remember it is God's timing right? Yep, I know, but my goal was to get our homestudy and dossier in by Oct 2. So in my world - order was out of wack already! Yes, I am that way sometimes :) Now you have reason to pray for Jason :)

So you could imagine my VERY EXCITED SELF as I read that our homestudy was approved and our IA background check both came in YESTERDAY!!!!! Yep, a miracle that I was given :) Made me happy and I was so excited....that as the clock turned this morning I was bugging our home study social worker- right after she got in the office. Almost yelling in her ear- did you see the great news????? She got to work right away - upon my urging- to get it printed and notarized today. Of course after threatening her life- I mean asking so sweetly- please please please :) Her secretary was more than happy to do that- and put a rush on it!!!

That is why there is a crazy picture of our UPS store, and our dossier being sent off!!! Look at all that hard work - ahhhh.....loads of hours.....loads of online classes......loads of questions from our social worker....loads of ordering documents.....loads of money......loads of dreaming about our Naomi (after we found out about her)................and the list goes on. So there it is......really quite boring.

We also had to send a copy of our homestudy to the USCIS- H*meland Security so they have it to review as well. You know make sure we are ok to adopt a child :) YEAH!

***Side note you notice our baby has her face blotted out.....rules of our agency- and great ones to never post a pic of our sweet girl online until we bring her home :) On the other side of life her pictures are all over our home- and I do mean all over!!!! I just can't get enough of looking into her beautiful eyes :) She is completely amazing, but you will just have to take my word for it.

10 comments:

  1. Congratulations!! And what a great collision of paperwork. :) It must feel GREAT!

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  2. Yeah! So I am sitting amazed considering the task of that paperwork and that you got it done! You have given birth girl!

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  3. yay!!! congrats on getting all of that done!!!!

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  4. i so feel your pain..i remember those days all too well...but i'd relive them in a minute if it meant that we'd have our LL :)

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  5. Congratulations! I can't believe how quickly you've gotten it all done - it seems like it was yesterday that you posted on the Yahoo group that you were adopting Naomi. We'll be praying that the rest of the process goes quickly too. We're so excited for you!

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  6. Yippeeeeee! Glad to hear that the latest hurdle is cleared...now on to the next one, and the next one, til Naomi is in your arms and not just pictures plastering your walls. Is it mostly a waiting game (games are typically thought of as fun, so that is probably not the right word) now or is there something else you have to do?

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  7. Yeah, yeah! What a lovely day it will be when that precious girl is in her mama and daddy's arms! Recoicing that another one will be redeemed and rescued.

    Love,
    Mama in Uganda

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  8. How exciting! Congratulations on getting all that sent off! Hope everything makes it quickly and safely to Ethiopia! I can't wait to see pictures of her home with her new family! God is good! I was just reading your older posts, and that is great that her testing came back good!

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  9. Yay! It's all sent. Feels good, huh? We would love to travel with you! I bet your a wealth of info in all things adoption:)
    Now more with the hurry up and wait! I'm right there with you.

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