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Wow....huff...........I am emotionally exhausted. We were all exited for the first part of our home study, and you better believe the house was sparkling...I even woke up at dawn to weed. The house passed with flying colors. They check every room and closet, and were impressed we had a complete nursery ready. Then we sat down for an overview with questions and paperwork. I had never seen so many pages. They pulled a little carrier to hold all the pages. I didn't realize the difference in domestic and international adoption basically meant 2,000 more pages to fill out. For example, in the next 2 weeks we need to:
Get CPS clearance, fingerprinted, send away for finger print cards, fill our application, get money orders, 5 letters of reference, financial statements, birth certificates, marriage license, all of which from the state, no copies, credit reports, 14 paragraph autobiographies, physicals, tax returns and codes and agreements.
WOW!!! The said the average fist step takes 30 hours to finish. Well here goes hour one....
We are thrilled and more excited than we could ever be. We remember the excitement of engagement, marriage, IVF...and for some crazy reason none of that compares to God rescuing a baby from Africa and blessing multiple lives at once! After we started the process I am realizing all we could have missed if we had our own children biologically. Life is so great, Our God is so Holy! We will keep you updated! Love yall!
Wow....huff...........I am emotionally exhausted. We were all exited for the first part of our home study, and you better believe the house was sparkling...I even woke up at dawn to weed. The house passed with flying colors. They check every room and closet, and were impressed we had a complete nursery ready. Then we sat down for an overview with questions and paperwork. I had never seen so many pages. They pulled a little carrier to hold all the pages. I didn't realize the difference in domestic and international adoption basically meant 2,000 more pages to fill out. For example, in the next 2 weeks we need to:
Get CPS clearance, fingerprinted, send away for finger print cards, fill our application, get money orders, 5 letters of reference, financial statements, birth certificates, marriage license, all of which from the state, no copies, credit reports, 14 paragraph autobiographies, physicals, tax returns and codes and agreements.
WOW!!! The said the average fist step takes 30 hours to finish. Well here goes hour one....
We are thrilled and more excited than we could ever be. We remember the excitement of engagement, marriage, IVF...and for some crazy reason none of that compares to God rescuing a baby from Africa and blessing multiple lives at once! After we started the process I am realizing all we could have missed if we had our own children biologically. Life is so great, Our God is so Holy! We will keep you updated! Love yall!
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