Our Home Study Update!

Posted on 9/08/09 on blog "My Something Beautiful"
Tonight, we met with Danita to update our Home Study! It was neat to touch base with her again as she hadn’t seen the children in over a year! She was also our SW for the first adoption, and she did our post-placements following the adoption. She is the sweetest woman who has a passion for placing children in forever families. She works at Acorn Adoptions assisting birthmothers and placing children in homes in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Hopefully, once we get the info from our background checks and Ben’s medical letter, we will be able to get a draft of the home study! Oh, yeah, we need our results from the Parent Education Modules. We finished last night. The prompt said it may be a week before we get any results. I was hoping that we’d have them today after talking with Shane and heard he and Carmen got theirs really quick!

Once the home study is complete, we will then send off for the Immigration paperwork! Yeah! Waahoo! It’s coming together!!! I know I’m repeating myself in posts, but it’s just so nice that it’s all coming together…

Still need ideas about a fundraiser. I had asked one of my real graphic artistic friends to help me design (or rather, design for me) a puzzle to do a puzzle fundraiser. I plan to apply for several grants once the homestudy is complete. It would be nice to have the first $3500 in the bank, though, so when the time comes to send the dossier, it can be out on it’s way to Colombia! So, pray with me that we get some creative juices following and God give us opportunity to make extra money and that we be wise with our money finding ways to save it and pay off current debt.

Thanks!