A Wee Bit of News

Not much news but some...

I spoke to our social worker yesterday and we do have to meet with her again. Our final (hopefully) meeting is next Monday the 31st, basically just to wrap up loose ends and to verify that we have Brian's firearms locked up properly.

A little update on trying to adopt 2 children: to get the second child we have to adopt from the Special Focus Children group. From my understanding, these are children that are a little more difficult to adopt. SFC typically are boys, so our plan is to adopt a girl from the Waiting Child program and a boy from the SFC program. We finished up the application (10 pages!) the other day and sent it to our social worker for review. Hopefully we won't hit any snags and it can get pushed through to our Family Coordinator!

We found out we have to get fingerprinted again for our federal background checks and then we will have to get fingerprinted AGAIN before we travel. So, I'm in the process of getting that set up.

I got another document certified and one in the works- woo woo! I finally have 15 notarized Indiana documents so I plan to head down to the State House soon to get them certified.

My cousin is currently running an Origami Owl fundraiser for us and it's doing fantastic! The party is already close to $600 and she is giving us her commission! She is amazing!
Here is the link: http://melissaschilling.origamiowl.com/parties/sabrinagilbert231996/collections.ashx


That's all for now!

Progress...

So far I've got exactly one document state certified: Brian's birth certificate. I have another document in the process of being state certified, but that one had to be county certified first. Ugh.

Once we receive Brian's employment letter, I have to send it back to Pennsylvania to get certified then I can send that and the 2 Ohio documents to New York to be authenticated.

I'm waiting to collect all the Indiana documents, then I'm going to make a trip to the Indiana State House to get them certified in person... that should be a fun day! Ha!
After I get all the IN documents certified, I'll ship them off to Chicago to get authenticated.

All the authenticated documents then get sent to the agency for review before they get translated into Chinese and shipped overseas. China has to make the final approval.

All in all, we're making progress. There really isn't much left to do but fill out the Waiting child Application, and wait!