Thought I'd send out an update.
We are scheduled to meet our home study social worker May 2nd, for our first home visit! Ok, get cleaning... This is exciting, we are on our final leg for the home study. All 200 pieces of paper should be done for this part. Thank you to our friends who helped write our referral letters. Allan and I are fortunate to be traveling for 10 days to Italy and Greece in about 2 weeks. (Great job to my husband who "earned" the trip through business- expenses are paid. ) It will be nice to spend some time together; we hope we can celebrate the first leg of the homestudy being complete.
Everyone asks, "Whats next?" Well, another 200 pieces of paperwork! Not kidding. We then start our dossier that will be submitted to the Ethiopian courts for approval. These are all documents that need to be notarized, state certified and authenticated. Lets not forget the fingerprinting again. After the dossier is received and approved by the Ethiopian courts we will then be an official "waiting family." Whats a waiting family? We are ready to get a call at any time that we have been matched with a child in need. At that point we see pictures and medical information!
We are hoping for us that our wait time for referral will not take as long (compared to 6-15 months for infants.) Hopefully our wait will go much much quicker as there is more of a need for older children.
Allan and I have been doing online training about attachment, older child adoptions, being a transracial family, medical etc. We are almost done with the 10 hours.
In the meantime we have purchased tickets to attend "Mehaber" this summer in the cities. This is an Ethiopian event of celebrating and learning about the culture. Avah is coloring in her Ethiopian coloring book and learning there. She has already colored pictures for her sister welcoming her HOME! And the neighbor girls have also colored pictures telling her which house on the cul -de- sac they live. How cute!
Please continue to pray for our journey, we know we have our guardian angels providing us the strength and guidance.
Blessings!
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