Wednesday February 27th was a monumental day in the continuing of our adoption. We turned in our agreements and initial payment to America World. There’s no turning back now! =) We were contacted Thursday by the agency social worker to begin our homestudy process. We will begin our orientation Monday March 17th! This meeting will be held at the agency office with other adopting parents and is a 3 hour informational meeting on the ins-and-outs of paperwork collection and home standards for our visit with the social worker.
Please keep us in your prayers as we are needing to move. Our apartment lease is not up until the end of July and we are unable to begin our paperwork collection at our current address and finish it up at a different one. Also the home visit must be done in the home the child will be coming to. So we are at a standstill per say until we are in the place we will be bring a child into. There are a few different ways this could be worked out, we just need wisdom to know which to pursue. We are trusting God for His perfect timing in all of this. So if you think of it, please make time to pray that God would quickly move us out of our apartment and into a house/apartment (preferably near Joshua’s office), so that we can continue to move along with our adoption. Or that we would have great patience to wait if that is not His plan.
***UPDATE*** We have decided to stay in our apartment until after we bring home our children. Therefore we will be renewing our lease in July. This decision has allowed us to proceed with our adoption in a more timely manner.
5 Comments
March 1, 2008 at 2:37 am
Yay! I’m so happy that you guys were able to move ahead this quickly.
Still praying that you guys find a place to live.
March 2, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I will definately be praying for you both, making moving plans can be rather stressful so I will be praying that the Peace of God covers you as you walk through this process.
March 3, 2008 at 5:14 am
You are in our prayers!
March 6, 2008 at 8:58 am
I’m glad that y’all are working on the paperwork. I’m so excited for you two to have your child. I really hope that we get to meet him/her soon.
March 7, 2008 at 8:06 am
I so know how you feel, I was there myself. Still get things back after I thought I was done. It will all be worth it in the end.